Still Separate, Still Unequal: Teaching about School Segregation and Educational Inequa... - 0 views
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Racial segregation in public education has been illegal for 65 years in the United States. Yet American public schools remain largely separate and unequal —
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Today’s teachers and students should know that the Supreme Court declared racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional in the landmark 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education.
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The nexus of racial and economic segregation has intensified educational gaps between rich and poor students, and between white students and students of color.
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Although many students learn about the historical struggles to desegregate schools in the civil rights era, segregation as a current reality is largely absent from the curriculum.
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Based on civil rights data released by the United States Department of Education, the nonprofit news organization ProPublica has built an interactive database to examine racial disparities in educational opportunities and school discipline. In this activity, which might begin a deeper study of school segregation, you can look up your own school district, or individual public or charter school, to see how it compares with its counterparts.
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Only a tiny number of black students were offered admission to the highly selective public high schools in New York City in 2019, raising the pressure on officials to confront the decades-old challenge of integrating New York’s elite public schools.
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School districts that predominantly serve students of color received $23 billion less in funding than mostly white school districts in the United States in 2016, despite serving the same number of students, a new report found.
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Segregation still persists in public schools more than 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision.