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3 Ways White Kids Benefit Most From Racially Diverse Schools
We know this already... but here it is again: 1. White students' test scores don't drop when they go to schools with...
Obama Wants To Get Rich And Poor Kids In The Same Classroom
Hip hip hooray!!!! AND! It seems that Obama is paying attention to SOCIOECONOMIC diversity, too......
Our next Ed Secretary might do more for school integration?!
Glad that we are really talking about this... "Duncan [admits] that he couldn’t do enough to desegregate the country’s...
The conversation I’m tired of not having…
thanks to amy for sharing this. well written. And, Nate Bowling, you're absolutely right: "Middle class America would...
Diversity is uncomfortable… but that’s a good thing.
Sean Riley says it beautifully. "Right now we have winner schools and we have loser schools...It's a race, class and...
We DO exist! There ARE middle class families who want Integrated School (but, yes, there should be more…)
This is happening across the country. Though our schools are more socioeconomically segregated than ever before...
What School Segregation Looks Like — A Teacher’s Thoughts…
Though author/teacher James Ford is talking about Charlotte-Mecklenburg in particular, these are questions we all...
“Gentrification Stops at the Schoolhouse Door”
This is an older post, but one worth revisiting. From Nikole Hannah-Jones, one of the reporters in the This American...
Do We Have to Send Our Kid to a Bad Public School? (from NYtimes)
Interesting question posed to the Ethicist of NYtimes. While some of the comments definitively advised the couple to...
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