The New York Times editorial board recently described the city's elite high schools as "Profoundly segregated," a state of affairs that calls to mind "The spirit of Jim Crow." Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose long-form reporting on the subject earned her a MacArthur Genius Grant last year, detailed her experience as a black mother trying to find a school for her daughter in an "Intensely segregated" system.
If separate is unequal by its very nature, then it doesn't matter whether blacks and whites have remained clustered by law or by choice; either way, we must integrate before blacks and Hispanics can excel academically.
Rather, the inferior performance of black schools was the result of other factors-most black schools received fewer resources, black families were locked out of many sectors of the economy, black parents were less likely to be educated, and so on.
Warren's claim stemmed from a popular misinterpretation of Kenneth Clark's famous 1939 doll experiment, which found that black students preferred to play with white dolls over black ones.
More recently, Success Academy in New York City, a chain of public charter schools that overwhelmingly serves poor black and Latino students, outperformed state averages on standardized tests in 2016.
Blacks are more likely to be poor than whites; therefore, we must integrate schools so that black kids can reap the benefits of going to school with kids from wealthier families.
Another neo-integrationist argument, heard recently in the debate about New York City's entrance exam for its elite high schools, is that poor blacks and Hispanics do not, and cannot be expected to, spend time and money preparing for entrance exams.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/black-only-schools-16000.html
If separate is unequal by its very nature, then it doesn't matter whether blacks and whites have remained clustered by law or by choice; either way, we must integrate before blacks and Hispanics can excel academically.
Rather, the inferior performance of black schools was the result of other factors-most black schools received fewer resources, black families were locked out of many sectors of the economy, black parents were less likely to be educated, and so on.
Warren's claim stemmed from a popular misinterpretation of Kenneth Clark's famous 1939 doll experiment, which found that black students preferred to play with white dolls over black ones.
More recently, Success Academy in New York City, a chain of public charter schools that overwhelmingly serves poor black and Latino students, outperformed state averages on standardized tests in 2016.
Blacks are more likely to be poor than whites; therefore, we must integrate schools so that black kids can reap the benefits of going to school with kids from wealthier families.
Another neo-integrationist argument, heard recently in the debate about New York City's entrance exam for its elite high schools, is that poor blacks and Hispanics do not, and cannot be expected to, spend time and money preparing for entrance exams.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/black-only-schools-16000.html
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