02/18/2008

Segregation in US Schools On the Rise

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. An article in the Washington Post (August 29, 2007; www.washingtonpost.com)...

"This 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...

"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 children in public schools was not mainly caused by a flight of white students into private schools. Instead, 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)'  The report states, 'Too often Latino students face triple segregation by race, class and language.'"

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