Re: segregation and racial composition in schools - 2 reports

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 More than 40 percent of students are "non-white."? So unless you want to solve the "segregation" problem by cloning "white" students and dealing them out to schools with lots of "non-white" kids, the thing to do is to work harder at improving schools for all kids.? Get behind NCLB instead of on the road in front of it.? 



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Two reports on segregation and racial composition of US schools:





SEGREGATION IN U.S. SCHOOLS IS INCREASING

Public schools in the United States are becoming more racially segregated and 

the trend is likely to accelerate because of a Supreme Court decision in June, 

according to a new report by the Civil Rights Project of the University of 

California in Los Angeles. The rise in segregation threatens the quality of 

education received by non-white students, who now make up 43 percent of the 

total U.S. student body. Many segregated schools struggle to attract highly 

qualified teachers and administrators, do not prepare students well for college 

and fail to graduate more than half their students. The resegregation trend 

damages the prospects for non-white students and will likely have a negative 

effect on the U.S. economy, reports Matthew Bigg for Reuters. Part of the reason 

for the resegregation is the rapidly expanding number of black and Latino 

children and a corresponding fall in the number of white children, it said. 

Contrary to popular belief, the surge in the number of minority ch

 ildren in public schools was not mainly caused by a flight of white students 

into private schools. Instead, it said, the post-"baby boom" generation of white 

Americans are having smaller family sizes. Latinos are the fastest growing 

minority in U.S. schools and for them segregation is often more profound than it 

was when the phenomenon was first measured 40 years ago, according to the 

report, "Historic Reversals, Accelerating Resegregation and the need for new 

Integration Strategies." "Too often Latino students face triple segregation by 

race, class and language," it said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082902111.html



AS MINORITIES INCREASE, STUDENT BODIES CHANGE

As minorities continue to increase their share of America's population, white 

students are less likely to attend nearly all-white public schools, while 

African-American and Hispanic students are more likely to attend nearly 

all-minority schools, according to a new report from the Pew Hispanic Center. 

The nationwide enrollment shift comes because the Hispanic share of the public 

school population has increased from 12.7 percent in 1993-94 to 19.8 percent in 

2005-06. The African-American share of public enrollment rose from 16.5 percent 

to 17.2 percent during this period. The white share fell sharply from 66.1 

percent to 57.1 percent. "In part because whites now comprise a smaller share of 

students in public schools, white students are now more likely to be exposed to 

minority students," said the report, titled "The Changing Racial and Ethnic 

Composition of U.S. Public Schools." But as the white share of the nation's 

public school population shrinks, "it has also led to a dimin

 ished exposure of black and Hispanic students to white students," the report 

said. About three in 10 black students (31 percent) and Hispanic students (29 

percent) attended nearly all-minority schools in 2005-06, up from 28 percent for 

black students and 25 percent for Hispanic students from the 1993-94 school 

year. During this same period, the proportion of white students attending nearly 

all-white public schools fell from one in three (34 percent) to one in five (21 

percent). Nationwide, the number of nearly all-minority schools has increased 

from 5,498 in 1993-94 to 10,135 in 2005-06. The number of nearly all-white 

public schools decreased from 25,603 to 16,769 during this same period. The 

report said school populations are determined largely by local housing patterns, 

reports Bob Dart for Cox News Service.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/08/30/racenums_0831.html

Monty Neill, Ed.D.

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