How America abandoned the only policy that consistently closes the black-white educational gap

Yes. I remember it very well. Shattered glass and blood on my typewriter, even.

This was also the outcome where I live.

Basically the discrimination shifted to an economic basis, rather than a color line. And since the poor in this area are disproportionately people of color, this resulted in a small proportion of people of color getting a better deal, but overall more people being shafted.

If I go to a High School ball game, the parents of the kids being bussed in from the inner city won’t be there. Because just to get the kids themselves in and out of the city (that is, the kids that don’t have to work to support their families) takes all the resources and cooperation the school and the coaches and the more privileged parents can muster. Back when those kids went to the inner city crap school, their parents were involved more than they can be now.

Something had to be done. What was done, was not even close to optimal.

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