Tag: Chungmei Lee

  • Science & Tech

    A multiracial society with segregated schools

    The nation’s public schools are becoming steadily more nonwhite, as the minority student enrollment approaches 40 percent of all U.S. public school students, almost twice the share of minority school students during the 1960s. Almost half of all public school students in the West and the South are minority students. The desegregation of black students,…

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  • Science & Tech

    Public school districts resegregating by race, study finds

    While the 2000 census results illustrate that the United States has more racial and ethnic diversity than ever before, school data from the year 2000-2001 collected by the U.S. Department of Education indicates that school children are largely isolated from this growing diversity. The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University’s new report, Race in American…

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