By Stan Karp (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Richard Rothstein asks how much schools can be expected to overcome the staggering inequality that continues to define our society. It’s the right question. Educational inequality—whose manifestations go well beyond test score gaps—is perhaps the central problem our schools face. How we deal with it will go a long … [Read more...] about “Inequality and the Schoolhouse” by Stan Karp (September-October 2004 P&R Issue)
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A Response
Richard Kahlenberg suggests that the economic integration of our public schools – or, more specifically, their transformation into “majority middle-class” schools – is both the necessary and achievable response to our society’s inability, and unwillingness, to achieve racial the desegregation of its schools and its housing patterns. Social science research demonstrates that … [Read more...] about A Response
