3. U.S. Schools Are Segregated
According to a new Civil Rights report published at the University of California, Los Angeles, schools in the U.S. are more segregated today then in the 1950's.
44% of all children in the U.S. education program are non-white. Minority groups are rapidly emerging as the majority in the American public school system.
Latinos and blacks, the two largest minority groups, attend schools more segregated today than during the civil rights movement forty years ago, two of every five students attend intensely segregated schools.
The Civil Rights Study showed that the most severe segregation in public schools is in the western states, including California, not in the south, as many people believe.
Most non-Caucasian schools are segregated by poverty as well as race. They are highly unequal in terms of funding, qualified teachers, and curriculum.
Sources:The Civil Rights Project, UCLA, January 2009
Title: “Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge”
Author: Gary Orfield
Student Researchers: Melissa Robinson and Rena Hawkins
Faculty Evaluator: Sangeeta Sinha, PhD
Southwest Minnesota State University
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