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May 19, 2005
Report: Why Segregation Matters
Orfield, Gary and Chungmei Lee, Harvard Civil Rights Project, January 2005
One of the common misconceptions over the issue of resegregation of schools is that many people treat it as simply a change in the skin color of the students in a school. If skin color were not systematically linked to other forms of inequality, it would, of course, be of little significance for educational policy. Unfortunately that is not and never has been the nature of our society. Socioeconomic segregation is a stubborn, multidimensional and deeply important cause of educational inequality.
Why Segregation Matters: Poverty and Educational Inequality