The Next Kind of Integration - Class, Race and Desegregating American Schools - NYTimes.com

Although many liberals decried the Supreme Court decision preventing schools from integrating based on race, it seems as if dedicated people in caring communities are still striving ahead to integrate schools based on socio-economics... one factor of which in certain areas also happens to be race.

This story really inspired me. I think that the few dedicated people out there working within their communities to integrate schools while keeping the affluent (white) parents on their side are doing a great job. And a rising tide lifts all boats.

The Next Kind of Integration - Class, Race and Desegregating American Schools - NYTimes.com: "Researchers have been demonstrating this result since 1966, when Congress asked James S. Coleman, a Johns Hopkins sociologist, to deliver a report on why the achievement of black students lagged far behind that of white ones. The expected answer was that more than a decade after Brown, black kids were still often going to inferior schools with small budgets. But Coleman found that the varying amount of money spent on schools didn’t account for the achievement gap. Instead, the greater poverty of black families did. When high concentrations of poor kids went to school together, Coleman reported, all the students at the school tended to learn less."