Thursday, April 21, 2016
Century Foundation Research on School Segregation is Focus of Reporting in The Atlantic
The U.S. Education Secretary John King is frustrated by what he describes as the “ahistorical nature” of conversations today about how to integrate schools.
Speaking at a Century Foundation panel on Tuesday to highlight two recent reports by the think tank, King said that the need for “urgency” when it comes to making classrooms more socioeconomically and racially diverse is sometimes thwarted by communities who see the current lack of real integration as a fact over which they have no control.
That, he argued, is simply not true...