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Mandating Public School Attendance: A Proposal For Achieving Racial And Class Integration, Thomas Kleven
Mandating Public School Attendance: A Proposal For Achieving Racial And Class Integration, Thomas Kleven
Thomas Kleven
The paper argues that big city school districts should consider mandating that all children attend public school as a means of integrating their schools racially and economically. Many educators believe that racial and class integration is necessary to equalize educational opportunity. A major factor impeding integration is that many minority and lower income children are essentially trapped in inner city schools where most students are from the same socio-economic and ethnic background. Much of this racial and class separation is the result of white and middle class flight to suburbia over the past 50 years or so. Nevertheless, because significant …
Mandating Public School Attendance: A Proposal For Achieving Racial And Class Integration, Thomas Kleven
Mandating Public School Attendance: A Proposal For Achieving Racial And Class Integration, Thomas Kleven
Thomas Kleven
The paper argues that big city school districts should consider mandating that all children attend public school as a means of integrating their schools racially and economically. Many educators believe that racial and class integration is necessary to equalize educational opportunity. A major factor impeding integration is that many minority and lower income children are essentially trapped in inner city schools where most students are from the same socio-economic and ethnic background. Much of this racial and class separation is the result of white and middle class flight to suburbia over the past 50 years or so. Nevertheless, because significant …