Word: segregationism
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“I wonder whether anyone who has not lived through segregation can imagine how horrible it was,” he said. “You knew first-hand that anything you did was wrong.”
Still, he said, segregation did not immediately disappear—leaving many of the inequity problems that the No Child Left Behind attempts to address today.
Chungmei Lee, a research associate at the Civil Rights Project and Joseph Berger, associate professor of education at the University of Massachusetts, unveiled a series of sobering statistics at the conference on minority achievement, entitled “Separate and Unequal: Segregation and Educational Opportunity in Metro Boston.?...
Lee said that her study found that school segregation is increasing not only in the city of Boston, but also in surrounding suburbs. “Ninety-one percent of the students attending schools in the suburbs are white while only 15 percent of the students in Boston...
Lee said that there is also a “powerful relationship” between racial and economic segregation.