New Study Finds School Segregation on the Rise.

New Study Finds School Segregation on the Rise. The Civil Rights Project at Harvard recently released the resultsof a new study showing that school segregation segregation:see apartheid; integration. grew throughout the1990s. The study, "Schools More Separate: Consequences of a Decadeof Resegregation re��seg��re��ga��tion?n.Renewal of segregation, as in a school system, after a period of desegregation. ," by Professor of Education and Social Policy GaryOrfield Gary Orfield, is an American professor at the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, formerly of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is one of the founders of The Civil Rights Project, now called The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto de Derechos Civiles. (who is also the co-director of The Civil Rights Project) withteaching fellow Nora Gordon, analyzes statistics from the 1998-99 schoolyear--the latest year of data available from the National Center forEducation Statistics' Common Core of Education Statistics. The study found that 70.2 percent of the nation's blackstudents now attend predominantly minority schools--with more that athird attending schools with a minority enrollment of 90 to 100 percent.While schools in the South are still more integrated than before thecivil rights movement of the 1960s, the percentage of black students inwhite majority schools decreased steadily from 1988 to 1998. Data from the study shows that white students are the mostsegregated from other races--with white students on average attendingschools where more than 80 percent of the other students are white. The most dramatic findings related to the Latino studentpopulation, which has grown by 245 percent in the past 30 years. Evenwith the resegregation trend, intense segregation for black students isstill 28 points below the 1969 level. For Latinos, it has actuallyincreased by 13.5 points. The Harvard study also points out the strong links betweensegregation by race and by poverty. According to according toprep.1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.2. In keeping with: according to instructions.3. the study, the averageblack or Latino student attends a school with more than twice as manypoor classmates Classmates can refer to either: Classmates.com, a social networking website. Classmates (film), a 2006 Malayalam blockbuster directed by Lal Jose, starring Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Indragith, Sunil, Jagathy, Kavya Madhavan, Balachandra Menon, ... as the average white student, and there is a strongassociation between poverty levels and many indicators of educationalinequality, including low test score averages. The Civil Rights Project does offer a number of recommendations tohelp curb resegregation and educational inequalities. Among these arethe expansion of the federal magnet school magnet schooln.A public school offering a specialized curriculum, often with high academic standards, to a student body representing a cross section of the community. program; the creation ofexpertise on desegregation desegregation:see integration. and race-relations training in statedepartments of education; documentation through school district surveysof the value of interracial in��ter��ra��cial?adj.Relating to, involving, or representing different races: interracial fellowship; an interracial neighborhood. schooling; creation of two-way integratedbilingual schools; and promotion and funding of teacher exchangesbetween city and suburban school districts and training of teachers intechniques for successful interracial classrooms. For more information, visit www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/07.19/12-segregation.html