mgland posted:
"Arrangement of the deck chairs on the titanic."
Report: San Diego Schools More Segregated
March 18, 2011
by Emily Alpert
Voice of San Diego
Southern California schools have grown more segregated for black and
Latino students as the number of Latino students surged, a new report
from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds.
Today, more than two out of five Latino students and nearly one-third of
all black students in the region enroll in intensely segregated learning
environments — schools where 90-100% of students are from
underrepresented minority backgrounds. Just 5% of Southern
California's Asian students attend intensely segregated schools, and 2%
of the region's white students do the same
For instance, the report found that the average African American
student in San Diego County went to a school that was 42.5 percent
white in 1980 — but only 20 percent white in 2000. Almost a quarter of
Latino students in San Diego County go to schools that are more than
90 percent underrepresented minorities. (The study considered African
American, Latino and American Indian students to be underrepresented
minorities.)
One pattern is more striking in San Diego Unified compared to the whole
county:
[T]he level of isolation for black students depends on whether or not
they enroll in SDUSD, the largest district in the county. Eighteen percent
of black students attending SDUSD are in 90-100% minority schools,
compared to 6% of county black students enrolled in non-SDUSD
districts.
Racial segregation was mirrored by economic and language
segregation, the researchers found. That could be a problem for English
learners, because they don't get exposed to many fluent classmates.
Academics and politicians debate, here and elsewhere, about whether
integration matters to school achievement. The Civil Rights Project
argues that Southern California schools were never truly desegregated
after the civil rights era, despite busing programs like the one in San
Diego. And they contend it has real academic impact, especially when
racial segregation is overlaid with poverty or language:
People can say sitting next to a white or Asian child makes no
difference, but being in a middle-class school — where most of the
students head to college, experienced and expert teachers offer many
college credit AP courses, your friends are fluent native English
speakers, and colleges and employers seek out their well-prepared
students — actually makes a decisive difference in the educational and
life opportunities afforded to students.
The report found that students in intensely segregated schools were
almost three times as likely to have a teacher who lacked full
qualifications than students in largely white or Asian schools. They are
also less likely to offer advanced mathematics classes.
This is an issue I'm really interested in, especially as San Diego Unified
pushes for more neighborhood schooling. How will integration be
impacted? Is the route to a more diverse society to put black, white,
Latino and Asian kids side by side in school? Or something else? I
recently asked San Diego State University professor emeritus of
education Alberto Ochoa about this issue. Here was his response:
If we truly want integration in our society, I'd rather have a school that
appears to be of one of two minorities, that has academic rigor and
enables them to go to college, the assumption being with a college
degree you'd have more access to live anywhere in the city and really
integrate our community — as opposed to integrating our schools
symbolically and then when the bell rings, we have resegregation.
"Arrangement of the deck chairs on the titanic."
Report: San Diego Schools More Segregated
March 18, 2011
by Emily Alpert
Voice of San Diego
Southern California schools have grown more segregated for black and
Latino students as the number of Latino students surged, a new report
from the Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds.
Today, more than two out of five Latino students and nearly one-third of
all black students in the region enroll in intensely segregated learning
environments — schools where 90-100% of students are from
underrepresented minority backgrounds. Just 5% of Southern
California's Asian students attend intensely segregated schools, and 2%
of the region's white students do the same
For instance, the report found that the average African American
student in San Diego County went to a school that was 42.5 percent
white in 1980 — but only 20 percent white in 2000. Almost a quarter of
Latino students in San Diego County go to schools that are more than
90 percent underrepresented minorities. (The study considered African
American, Latino and American Indian students to be underrepresented
minorities.)
One pattern is more striking in San Diego Unified compared to the whole
county:
[T]he level of isolation for black students depends on whether or not
they enroll in SDUSD, the largest district in the county. Eighteen percent
of black students attending SDUSD are in 90-100% minority schools,
compared to 6% of county black students enrolled in non-SDUSD
districts.
Racial segregation was mirrored by economic and language
segregation, the researchers found. That could be a problem for English
learners, because they don't get exposed to many fluent classmates.
Academics and politicians debate, here and elsewhere, about whether
integration matters to school achievement. The Civil Rights Project
argues that Southern California schools were never truly desegregated
after the civil rights era, despite busing programs like the one in San
Diego. And they contend it has real academic impact, especially when
racial segregation is overlaid with poverty or language:
People can say sitting next to a white or Asian child makes no
difference, but being in a middle-class school — where most of the
students head to college, experienced and expert teachers offer many
college credit AP courses, your friends are fluent native English
speakers, and colleges and employers seek out their well-prepared
students — actually makes a decisive difference in the educational and
life opportunities afforded to students.
The report found that students in intensely segregated schools were
almost three times as likely to have a teacher who lacked full
qualifications than students in largely white or Asian schools. They are
also less likely to offer advanced mathematics classes.
This is an issue I'm really interested in, especially as San Diego Unified
pushes for more neighborhood schooling. How will integration be
impacted? Is the route to a more diverse society to put black, white,
Latino and Asian kids side by side in school? Or something else? I
recently asked San Diego State University professor emeritus of
education Alberto Ochoa about this issue. Here was his response:
If we truly want integration in our society, I'd rather have a school that
appears to be of one of two minorities, that has academic rigor and
enables them to go to college, the assumption being with a college
degree you'd have more access to live anywhere in the city and really
integrate our community — as opposed to integrating our schools
symbolically and then when the bell rings, we have resegregation.
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Silence is Golden
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