HOW CHOOSING A SCHOOL IN A SEGREGATED CITY CAN BENEFIT BLACK & LATINO CHILDREN (2179 hits)
New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones struggles with her school choice options in New York City: “It felt like accepting the inevitability of this two-tiered system: one set of schools with excellent resources for white kids and some black and Latino middle-class kids, a second set of under-resourced schools for the rest of the city’s black and Latino kids,” she writes. She also explores the history and research that shows the benefits and power of integration, while noting that “black children are more segregated than they have been at any point in nearly half a century.” Find out what happens when you read this powerful exploration of the fight for fair education and see ED's recent work on promoting integrated schools.
