Following up on yesterday re: diversity – turns out diversity is a lot harder to get these days since we’ve steadily been re-segregating our schools. It’s a natural consequence of so many districts (like Nashville) coming into unitary status, as well as the Supreme Court’s Seattle/Louisville decision.
Via WNYC (photo via Penn State Special Collections)
Sigaran is taking a new elective class on integration in public schools. Their teacher, Sarah Camiscoli, said she started the project partly in response to a 2014 study by UCLA researchers finding New York has some of the most racially segregated public schools in the country.
Hit the link to read more.
Continually frustrated that Nashville (and Tennessee in general) don’t take seriously integration as a powerful lever of reform/school improvement itself.
We should be.
Further reading:
- Segregation Now: The Resegregation of America’s Schools
- The Integrationists
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A New Era for Desegregation
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Closing the student achievement gap:
The overlooked strategy of socioeconomic integration [pdf]
- Housing Policy is School Policy [pdf]
- The Academic Consequences of Desegregation and Segregation: Evidence from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools [pdf]
- How Much Does School Integration Affect Student Achievement? [pdf]