= The Issue =
Civil rights era - Present day
Has anything really changed?
- Supreme court decision in Seattle and Jefferson County
- Plessy vs. Ferguson
- Brown vs. Board of Education
= The Question =
Is racial integration the answer
to achieving educational equality
or is there another underlying factor?
= Context =
- 1980's vs 2000's
- 2% White minority vs 80% White majority
Segregation
- lower graduation rates
- fewer high qualified teachers
- teacher turnover
- instability teacher population
Diversity
- higher academic achievement
- priveledged social network
- diverse friendships
- less acceptance of stereotype
= Evidence =
solution for equality
- Choice is yours
- charter schools
- magnet schools
Differring argument
- score difference in 8%
- 95% high poverty school solution
= Perspectives =
= Racial =
= Integration =
- 1980's vs 2000's
- 2% minority Whites vs 80% majority Whites
- 1980's vs 2000's
- 2% White minority vs 80% White majority