Harvard project: School segregation on the rise despite growing diversity

Depth · 02-23-2006, 09:17 PM

School segregation on the rise despite growing diversity

Harvard project finds much of progress eliminated

Nearly 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared Southern segregated schools to be unconstitutional, resegregation is happening again. And it is occurring despite the nation's growing diversity. According to Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, resegregation is contributing to a growing gap in quality between the schools being attended by white students and those serving a large proportion of minority students. Census data show that, increasingly, there will be entire metropolitan areas and states with either no majority group or where the majority group will be Latino or African American. This will be a new experience in American educational history. Researchers at The Civil Rights Project recommend several policy actions, including the following, in order to curb racial and ethnic polarization and educational inequalities: 1) Expansion of the federal magnet school program and the imposition of similar desegregation requirements for federally supported charter schools. 2) Active support by private foundations and community groups of efforts to continue local desegregation plans and programs, through research, advocacy and litigation.

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Rotund Grappler · 02-23-2006, 09:27 PM

just walk around a university. even here you'll notice how people tend to stick together. you'll always see a group of black people together who are all friends. sure they have white friends who hang around too but all the black guys know each other. the asian exchange students pretty much only stick with each other. here we have a large chinese exchange population. but their deal is probably mostly due to language since they dont speak too much english. i notice it.

dracons · 02-24-2006, 02:55 AM

yup! i noticed it too, asian hanged out together, black hanged out together, and white hanged out together. I guess they feel more comfortable with each other.

deadlift ryan · 02-24-2006, 05:03 AM

theres a university in england where muslims are demanding that 2 hours of lessons a week are cancelled so they can go to prayers and not miss anything.
i think theres like 700 muslims in the uni out of 20,000 students.

Rotund Grappler · 02-24-2006, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by deadlift ryan

theres a university in england where muslims are demanding that 2 hours of lessons a week are cancelled so they can go to prayers and not miss anything.
i think theres like 700 muslims in the uni out of 20,000 students.

welcome to the new age where the minority dictates to the majority.

ShaolinFist · 02-24-2006, 11:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Rotund Grappler

just walk around a university. even here you'll notice how people tend to stick together. you'll always see a group of black people together who are all friends. sure they have white friends who hang around too but all the black guys know each other. the asian exchange students pretty much only stick with each other. here we have a large chinese exchange population. but their deal is probably mostly due to language since they dont speak too much english. i notice it.

That's how it is. Pretty much in every country.

chokingvictim · 02-24-2006, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by ShaolinFist

That's how it is. Pretty much in every country.

It's true. It's the same way at my college. People always naturally find others that they think are similar and that's just how it is.

deadlift ryan · 02-24-2006, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Rotund Grappler

welcome to the new age where the minority dictates to the majority.

but the majority are pussies who will put up with this shit
in the papers the other day there was a school in london thats 49 different languages spoken and i think it was 70 per cent of the students used english as there second language.
they teach these kids lessons in there mother tongue.
as a tax payer how much does this shit cost me?
im not english but i grew up here and i dont expect to be pampered.