Progress undone: experts say the nation's public schools are increasingly segregated.America's most segregated schools are not in the Southern states Southern States U.S. Confederacy government of 11 Southern states that left the Union in 1860. [Am. Hist.: EB, III: 73] Dixie popular name for Southern states in U.S. and for song. [Am. Hist. , where many of the hard-won battles for desegregation desegregation: see integration. were waged in the 1950s and 1960s. Instead, California, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Illinois, Maryland, and Michigan have the greatest number of minority students attending segregated schools, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Harvard Civil Rights Project study. Public schools nationwide are increasingly becoming re-segregated, and studies have shown that graduation rates at these schools are lower than schools with diverse student populations. "There's a direct correlation Noun 1. direct correlation - a correlation in which large values of one variable are associated with large values of the other and small with small; the correlation coefficient is between 0 and +1 positive correlation between school segregation and the drop-out rate," says Gary Orfield Gary Orfield, is an American professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, formerly of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is one of the founders of The Civil Rights Project, now called The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto de Derechos Civiles. , co-author co·au·thor or co-au·thor n. A collaborating or joint author. tr.v. co·au·thored, co·au·thor·ing, co·au·thors To be a collaborating or joint author of: "He and a colleague . . . of the study. "Segregated schools are almost always distinguished by poverty as well as race. In those schools you find fewer qualified teachers, higher student turnover, and more remedial classes." According to the study, 75% of white students graduate in four years, compared with 50% of minority students. Moreover, 87% of African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. students in California, attend schools with a student body composed of more than 50% ethnic minorities, according to Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation, a report based on numbers from 2003-2004. A comparison Harvard study shows that 65% of students in California attending racially segregated schools graduate, and only 58% graduate from socioeconomically segregated schools (schools in which at least 40% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch). In New York, 61% of black students attend minority-populated schools, where 90%-100% of the student body is non-white. "We're going backward," Orfield says. "We're going down a path that didn't work in the past." Most Segregated States for Black Students (2003-04) Percentage of Black Students in 50%-100% Minority Schools California 87% New York 86% Illinois 82% Maryland 81% Michigan 79% Texas 78% New Jersey 77% Louisiana 77% Mississippi 76% Georgia 73% Wisconsin 72% Connecticut 72% Pennsylvania 72% Ohio 71% Alabama 70% Arkansas 69% Nevada 69% Massachusetts 67% Florida 67% Missouri 67% Percentage of Black Students in 90%-100% Minority Schools New York 61% Illinois 69% Michigan 60% Maryland 53% New Jersey 49% Pennsylvania 47% Alabama 46% Wisconsin 45% Mississippi 45% Louisiana 41% Missouri 41% Ohio 38% California 38% Texas 38% Georgia 37% Florida 32% Connecticut 31% Massachusetts 26% Indiana 23% Arkansas 23% |
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