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Socioeconomic School Integration

“Socioeconomic School Integration – A Reply to the Responses” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (November-December 2001 P&R Issue)

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By Richard D. Kahlenberg (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The responses to my article, “Socioeconomic School Integration,” make a number of important points that are themselves deserving of a reply. I group my comments around six themes. 1. Using Race in K-12 School Integration vs. Higher Education Affirmative Action. In the context of K-12 schooling, I … [Read more...] about “Socioeconomic School Integration – A Reply to the Responses” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (November-December 2001 P&R Issue)

A Response

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I join Gary Orfield’s observations in response to Richard D. Kahlenburg’s article on socioeconomic school integration. I write to articulate an analysis that may be implicit in Orfield’s observations and that is absent or ignored in Kahlenburg’s. Both articles failed to confront the core of the school integration issue, whether it is defined by race or by class: white racism … [Read more...] about A Response

“Socioeconomic School Integration” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)

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By Richard D. Kahlenberg (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Today, most of the education reform world, liberal and conservative, accepts as a given that American children will attend schools that are largely segregated by class and race. There is a strong policy consensus that concentrations of poverty, whether in public housing or in public schools, reduce life … [Read more...] about “Socioeconomic School Integration” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)

“Symposium: Socioeconomic School Integration” (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)

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(Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Part One School segregation by race is extreme and increasing, despite the 1954 Brown decision. And, for many known reasons, these racial patterns clearly disadvantage blacks, Latinos, and other racial minorities. Today's courts are hostile to racially-based remedies and there is considerable resistance among the majority white … [Read more...] about “Symposium: Socioeconomic School Integration” (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)