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Social and economic disadvantage—not only poverty, but also a host of associated conditions—depresses student performance. Concentrating students with these disadvantages in racially and economically homogenous schools depresses it even further.
Our ability to remedy this situation by integrating schools is hobbled by historical ignorance.
We think residential segregation is but an accident of economic circumstance, personal preference, and private discrimination. However, residential segregation is actually the result of racially motivated law, public policy, and government-sponsored discrimination.
The result of state action, residential segregation reflects an ongoing and blatant constitutional violation that calls for explicit remedy.
A Question of Disadvantage With less access to routine and preventive health care, disadvantaged students have greater absenteeism.
With less literate parents, they are read to less frequently when young and are exposed to less complex language at home. With less adequate housing, they rarely have quiet places to study and may move more frequently, changing schools and teachers.
With fewer opportunities for enriching after-school and summer activities, their background knowledge and organizational skills are often less developed. With fewer family resources, their college ambitions are constrained.
As these and many other disadvantages accumulate, children from lower social classes inevitably have lower average achievement than middle-class children, even with the highest-quality instruction Rothstein, When a school has a large proportion of students at risk of failure, the consequences of disadvantage are exacerbated.
Remediation becomes the norm, and teachers have little time to challenge students to overcome personal, family, and community hardships that typically interfere with learning.
When classrooms fill with students who come to school less ready to learn, teachers must focus more on discipline and less on learning. Children in impoverished neighborhoods are surrounded by more crime and violence and suffer from stress that interferes with learning.
Children with less exposure to mainstream society are less familiar with standard English. When few parents have strong educations themselves, schools cannot benefit from parental pressure for a high-quality curriculum. Children have few college-educated role models to emulate and few peers whose families set high academic standards.
The share of black students attending schools that are more than 90 percent minority grew from 34 percent in to 39 percent in Inblack students typically attended schools in which 43 percent of their fellow students were low-income; bythis figure had risen to 59 percent Orfield, In urban areas, low-income white students are more likely to be integrated into middle-class neighborhoods and are less likely to attend school predominantly with other disadvantaged students.
Although immigrant, low-income Hispanic students are also concentrated in schools, by the third generation, their families are more likely to settle in more middle-class neighborhoods.
Integrating disadvantaged black students into schools in which more-privileged students predominate can narrow the black—white achievement gap. But segregated schools with poorly performing students can rarely be turned around while remaining racially isolated.
The problems students bring to school are so overwhelming that policy should never assume that even the most skilled and dedicated faculty can overcome them.
Although schools can make a difference, they cannot erase the damage caused by concentrated poverty and racial isolation. Schools with well-developed and aligned curriculums, good teacher—principal collaboration, and concerted efforts to involve parents made greater progress.
But such reform programs made little or no difference in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, where nearly all students were residentially mobile, were black, and had low-income parents with little formal education and a likelihood of unemployment. The investigators concluded, "Our findings about schooling in truly disadvantaged communities offer a sobering antidote to a heady political rhetoric arguing that all schools can be improved" p.
The Benefits of Integration Accumulating evidence confirms the need for school integration. Perhaps even more important than narrowing the test score gap are the positive behavioral outcomes from school racial integration: Ethnographic studies of students who participated in racial integration programs confirm that students of different races benefit from working together and are better prepared for civic engagement.
In one, Chicago public housing residents received vouchers to subsidize moves to private apartments. Whether they were offered apartments in racially isolated urban neighborhoods or in predominantly white suburbs was a matter of chance.
Adolescent children who moved to the suburbs fared better than those who stayed in the city: Children—nearly three-quarters were black—who moved into and attended schools in more affluent neighborhoods outperformed comparable children who attended schools with higher proportions of low-income students Schwartz, But they did gain better physical and mental health Ludwig, The prudent policy is to move forward to integrate schools.
Supreme Court made school integration more difficult when it prohibited the Louisville, Kentucky, and Seattle, Washington, school districts from making racial balance a factor in assigning students to schools in cases where applicant numbers exceeded available seats.
Desegregation efforts are impermissible if students are racially isolated not from government policy but because of societal discrimination, economic characteristics, or what Justice Clarence Thomas, in a concurring opinion, termed "any number of innocent private decisions, including voluntary housing choices.
Even the dissenters in the Louisville—Seattle case, led by Justice Stephen Breyer, agreed with this assumption. Breyer argued that school districts should be permitted to address de facto racial homogeneity voluntarily, even if not constitutionally required to do so.
But he accepted that, for the most part, Louisville and Seattle schools were not segregated by state action and thus not constitutionally required to desegregate. This is a dubious proposition.Dear Twitpic Community - thank you for all the wonderful photos you have taken over the years.
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Social and economic disadvantage—not only poverty, but also a host of associated conditions—depresses student performance. Concentrating students with these. U.S. Files Complaints With WTO Against Trading Partners.
fired back at lawsuits other countries have filed with the World Trade Organization over Trump steel and aluminum tariffs, escalating a trade dispute with some of America’s closest allies. The EU has the ability to address a range of issues vital to integration through post-entry rules on immigrants and refugees (e.g., in its directive on family reunification); its laws on racial and religious discrimination; targeted efforts for migrants such as the "Equal" program; and its (currently marginal) attention to integration in mainstream strategies on employment, social inclusion, and health.
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In particular, we look at 5 theories of Latin American migration and highlight them with examples of different.