This Baltimore Sun series on school integration is solid – heartbreaking and well worth a read. The first article, Bridging the Divide, reports on the process of redrawing school boundaries and (spoiler alert!) another win for segregation under the guise of...
This we know, but let’s say it again: “Research shows that middle-class students tend to do as well academically in economically mixed schools. But more than that, there’s emerging research to suggest that, indeed, middle-class students benefit from...
Some of the objections/concerns we hear from parents about sending their babes to integrating schools goes something like this: “the world is just SO competitive. Getting in to college is SO crazy-fierce. I just can’t take the risk of not sending mine to the best...
David Berliner, former dean of the school of education at Arizona State University and a past president of the American Educational Research Association writes here about a topic that plagues integration efforts: the FAILING SCHOOLS Narrative. ...
For each of these see-how-it-works! stories, we get another watch-us-undermine-integration-in-the-name-of-“neighborhood-schools” stories. Hartford, Connecticut is famously becoming the model magnet-school city. The magnets do not hide the goal of...
