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Title: A Different Kind of Choice: Educational Inequality and the Continuing Significance of Racial Segregation. Working Paper
Language: English
Authors: Rothstein, Richard, Santow, Mark, Economic Policy Institute
Source: Economic Policy Institute. 2012.
Availability: Economic Policy Institute. 1333 H Street NW Suite 300 East Tower, Washington, DC 20005. Tel: 202-775-8810; Fax: 202-775-0819; e-mail: publications@epi.org. Web site: http://www.epi.org
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Physical Description: PDF
Page Count: 30
Publication Date: 2012
Document Type: Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Descriptors: Equal Education, Achievement Gap, Charter Schools, Evidence, School Choice, School Desegregation, Racial Segregation, Social Integration, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Social Change, Social Class, Metropolitan Areas, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools, School Restructuring, Racial Discrimination, Federal Government, Government Role, Race, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
Abstract: Despite the growing ideological divisions, there has been a surprising political convergence on some issues related to urban policy, social services, and housing. From the spread of charter schools and school choice to the expansion of home ownership through financial deregulation, it is apparent that liberals and conservatives agree. Yet these points of agreement hide or exacerbate racial and economic segregation, and geographically concentrate its deleterious consequences. The Obama Administration's embrace of urban charter schools and school choice is emblematic of this convergence, yet in fact, charter schools are even more segregated than regular public schools. Despite lack of evidence of their efficacy, and strong empirical support for benefits of school integration, Administration officials fail to describe the achievement gap as a reflection of metropolitan segregation. Establishing racially homogenous charter schools in urban neighborhoods, even where charter schools are successful, is but the latest example of what George Romney's allies dismissed as "gilding the ghetto." George Romney had a better approach. He understood that the suburbs themselves must be desegregated so that disadvantaged children could attend predominantly middle class schools in their own neighborhoods. He was defeated in his efforts, and partly because of this defeat, the achievement gap between black and white children has not narrowed nearly as much as it might have done in the last half century. It is unlikely to narrow much further without revisiting the imperative of residential integration in the metropolitan areas. (Contains 126 endnotes.)
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