Schools fail racial minorities through neglect and hostile climates

Evidence

With white parents opposed to desegregation and the school system having to institute entirely new attendance policies for their schools, one would hope that the black students that attend desegregated schools would be benefiting greatly from their education. Research has not found this to be entirely true. — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 28 (#complicates, via linked claim)

The racism crisis in schools may take a less spectacular but equally important form, that of segregation. To ensure that their children have the best chances of succeeding at school, parents turn to the schools which are known for their social and possibly cultural homogeneity, and avoid schools with a high percentage of poor and immigrant-origin children. In the long run this contributes to the fragmentation of the educational system as a whole. Segregation in housing is frequently a less direct, but more widespread, way of ensuring segregation at school. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3158 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Everyday teacher bias and structural school resourcing interact to accumulate racial disadvantage. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 423; Children of Color suffer simultaneous special-education, gifted, and discipline inequities.; School curricula encode racial hierarchies that erase children of Color’s culture. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 260 (+19 more)

Broader Connections

• Desegregated schooling does not reliably benefit Black students #complicates (0.80) — Marcy Crouch, Magnet Schools and Other Means of…, 28
• The civil rights struggle depended on black-specific institutions white schools could not have hosted #complicates (0.75)
• Parental school choice fragments entire educational systems along racial lines #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 3158
• Learning itself served as anticolonial resistance within segregated black schools #complicates (0.72) — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress, 11