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In the broad resegregation of the nations schools that has transpired over recent decades, New Yorks public-school system looms as one of the most segregated. While the citys public-school population looks diverse 40.3 percent Hispanic, 32 percent black, 14.9 percent white and 13.7 percent Asian many of its schools are nothing of the sort. . .
Decades of academic studies point to the corroding effects of segregation on students, especially minorities, both in diminished academic performance and in the failure to equip them for the interracial world that awaits them.
The preponderance of evidence shows that attending schools that are diverse has positive effects on children throughout the grades, and it grows over time, said Roslyn Mickelson, a professor of sociology and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, who has reviewed hundreds of studies of integrated schooling. To put it another way, the problems of segregation are accentuated over time, she said.
Even if a segregated school provides a solid education, studies suggest, students are at a disadvantage. What is a good education? Dr. Mickelson said. That you scored well on a test?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/13/education/at-explore-charter-school-a-portrait-of-segregated-education.html?_r=1&hp
mbperrin
(7,672 posts)AP & IB are 90% white, with the remainder the children of foreign-born doctors.
My 6 sections of senior students are 95% Hispanic, 4% black, and 1% white.
Here's the equipment breakdown: all AP, science and math teachers get color printers. All AP and IB teachers get smartboards and mobile computing labs.
Yep, just about complete now. You can't even bring your own equipment to school by policy.
msongs
(67,405 posts)knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)Our school is one of the few integrated schools in the area, and I was working with my juniors on their college app essays and trying to get them to write about how they have the advantage of going to an integrated school. They hadn't even thought about it.