Posted on 11/30/2015 7:44:04 PM PST by sparklite2
When Wake County Public Schools switched from a school assignment policy based on race to one based on socioeconomic status, schools became slightly more segregated, according to new research from Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy.
However, segregation increased much more rapidly in four other large North Carolina school districts that simply dropped race-based strategies and did not attempt to pursue diversity in other ways.
In addition, Wake County math and reading scores rose slightly and the achievement gap between black and white students narrowed after the switch. In the four other N.C. districts, scores fell among black students after race-based school assignment stopped.
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How about teaching the three R’s and disregarding race, ethnicity, sex and gender.
“switched from a school assignment policy based on race to one based on socioeconomic status, “
What does that mean?
Family income, I should think.
It means whatever they want it to mean, of course.
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More segregated... by what? By race? Or by socioeconomic status?
Regards,
Segregated by race.
It means stay the hell away from public skools.
It probably means that richer kids had more complex reading assignments and poorer kids had less complex reading assignments. By giving poorer children easier assignments, their scores rose though they didn’t gain much in the way of increased skills. That’s why their scores dropped when it was stopped.
You’re probably right; preferred minorities probably had “color-by-numbers” assignments while crackers were assigned calculus. Equal outcomes (on paper)...
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