This essay is adapted from his latest book, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America.
Go into any urban school and many suburban school districts, and it is clear that, 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision integrated public education in this country, our schools still are largely segregated, giving rise to what some call "apartheid schooling".
Nearly seven years after apartheid, schools are increasingly integrated and blacks are slowly but steadily moving into white suburbs.
This week on newyorker.com, we went inside an "apartheid school" in Newark, New Jersey, spoke with the scholar who popularized the term "white privilege," and reported the story behind the firing of Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the Times.
Some experts suggest, however that the declining matric results say less about mediocrity or complacency than the vast difficulties of dragging an apartheid school system into a multiracial society.
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E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet This week on newyorker.com, we went inside an "apartheid school" in Newark, New Jersey, spoke with the scholar who popularized the term "white privilege," and reported the story behind the firing of Jill Abramson, the first female executive editor of the Times.
This makes it what UCLA's Civil Rights Project calls an "apartheid school".
The Civil Rights Project considers 73percentt of New York City charters to be "apartheid schools," in which less than 1percentt of students are white, and 90percentt were "intensely segregated".
Baltimore is home to several other "apartheid schools," which have led to high levels of income inequality and low opportunities for college preparation.
This includes dramatically inequitable school funding across states, districts, and schools and the intensified segregation of students on the basis of race and socio-economic status which have, together, created a growing number of under-resourced apartheid schools serving exclusively poor and minority students.
