Thursday, September 19, 2013

Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Declares: “[Segregation] Works, But It’s Wrong”

Via Frank

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Now maybe what he'll do is he'll find a charter school that only accepts kids with high scores. Then he'll get a better quality of education.
Keep the poor kids out, re-segregate them, keep them locked in ghettos where they won't be near his kids; and then we will create in this country a dual school system such as we had before Brown vs. Board of Education, where the poor kids and the kids who don't make it and the cutoffs are segregated, where the kids with disabilities are kept out of the school, where the kids who are English language learners are kept out of the school.
That works, but it's wrong
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Article @ On Point

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