The Effects Of Racially Segregation Schools

While the U.S education has changed drastically since the court case Brown vs. Board which ruled that racially segregated school are unconstitutional, many schools in America are still racially segregated. Organizations like The National Coalition on School Diversity have helped push for desegregation and creating policies to improve education in the U.S. Through the NCSD’s goals and strategies it allows them to create policies and inform people about the injustice of racially segregated schools. The organization must also take into account various limitations they face such as factors like a higher percentage of being incarcerated among minorities and racial discrimination which effects education greatly. By understanding the causes of segregated
Racial segregation is seen throughout major cities in America such as New York and Washington D.C where the majority of poor-income students attend public schools as opposed to upper-class students who go to private schools. “In Chicago, by the academic year 2000-2003, 87 percent of public-school enrollment was black or Hispanic; less than 10 percent of children in the schools were white” (Kozol 2005:1). Furthermore, the lack of resources goes along with the income of the students. The inconsistent money in schools causes other factors which negatively affect students in the future. Poor-income schools experience over population, funding cuts in the arts and lack of money for important school repairs (Kozol 2005). Also, many of the lower-income students are minorities who do not have the advantage as other affluent white children have. High-income students have better access to education at a very early age as opposed to minorities who do not. Even at an early age, children face segregation as early as Pre-kindergarten. In New York City “One out of every six pre-K classrooms, more than 90 percent of the students were of the same race or ethnicity” (Harris 2016). This begins the gap between minorities and white students. The two structural changes that must be addressed is the racial segregation in schools and the
They collaborate with advisory panel members from different University all over the nation such as Stanford, University of California, Berkeley and the University of Illinois. This allows the research conducted to be more diverse while taking into account the different socioeconomically effects in different states. However, the limitations they face is that they do not address the after effects of poor education for minorities. The students who are affected the most are Latino and Black. Among this racial group they have the highest incarnation rate. “Black males constituted roughly 39 percent of incarnation makes in state, federal, and local prison or jails…The Hispanic population, which constitutes about 20 percent of the total inmate population, is also overrepresented” (Bobo and Thompson 2010:327-328). Many of the young students become part of the cycle of young men due to factors like lack of education. “The boys had grown up in an environment which had deprived them of the social and cultural capital they needed to progress in school and the labor market” (Rios 2012:49). While the NCSD does a good job in presenting their research they do not research the after effects of poor education which limits their overall