First Grade Reading Suffers In Minority Neighborhood Schools
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 - 10:40
in Psychology & Sociology
Beginning in 1969, a court decision, motivated by a lack of racial integration in schools, ordered students to be shipped to schools in other neighborhoods. As part of a political campaign against Richard Nixon, his political opposition latched onto this forced busing and school desegregation to show they cared about minorities more. The trade-off was that kids were no longer in their own neighborhoods and felt like pawns in a culture war. read more
