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Surprise! Poor Students Go To Poor Schools In Poor Neighborhoods!

Richard Kahlenberg, long-time advocate for class-based affirmative action, notes with alarm the findings of a new National Center for Education Statistics report finding that

poor and minority students are increasingly concentrated in high poverty elementary and secondary schools. Between the 1999-2000 and 2007-08 school years the proportion of students who attended high poverty schools increased from 12% to 17% - a 42% jump.

Kahlenberg argues that this ?increasing economic segregation? is ?troublesome? because ?because high poverty schools tend to have lower levels of parental involvement, lower expectations, negative peer influences, and trouble attracting strong teachers.?

It may be true that poor students would have more ?strong teachers? if they went to un-poor schools, but wouldn?t the involvement of their parents, expectations, etc., remain the same?

Full post as published by Discriminations on June 13, 2010 (boomark / email).