Has the United States Given Up on Desegregating Schools?

Has the United States Given Up on Desegregating Schools?

Has the United States Given Up on Desegregating Schools?

What would it take to put school desegregation back on the country’s policy agenda?

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Fifty-eight years after Brown v. Board of Education, many schools remain segregated. Why is this still the case, and what would it take to put the issue back on the national policy agenda? On Saturday, Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow Dana Goldstein and New York University Professor Pedro Noguera addressed the politics of school segregation and explained why both poor and middle-class children benefit from attending integrated schools.

Erin Schikowski

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