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Sunday, November 13, 2005

Jonathan Kozol and the re-segregation of American Schools

I saw Jonathan Kozol speak briefly (and he signed my book!) this evening at a fundraiser celebrating the 20th anniversary of Rethinking Schools. Work prevents me from doing a full accounting, but he provided one important statistic worth repeating, and repeating, especially in urban school systems like Milwaukee:

A smaller percentage of African American students are in integrated schools right now than at any time since 1968.

Discuss.

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