COMMENTARY: Looking at school problems means looking at racism

When the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation conspired with local real estate experts in the 1930s to rate the economic desirability of neighborhoods in Dayton, the results predictably downgraded areas with significant black populations. “Schools must now be held accountable by citizens of the com...

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Published inDayton Daily News (Online)
Main Author Harrison, Jason
Format Web Resource
LanguageEnglish
Published Dayton Cox Newspapers, Inc 26.08.2018
Subjects
Cancer
Desegregation
Families & family life
Leadership
Poverty
Public schools
Racism
School boards
Segregation
White supremacy
New York
United States > US
Ohio
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Summary:When the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation conspired with local real estate experts in the 1930s to rate the economic desirability of neighborhoods in Dayton, the results predictably downgraded areas with significant black populations. “Schools must now be held accountable by citizens of the community through the political system,” the Ohio Department of Education’s lawyer said when in 2002 Dayton’s desegregation busing officially ended, foreshadowing the schools-blaming approach we’ve adopted since then. New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones reports that in 1988, the peak of this country’s efforts to desegregate also represented the narrowest the achievement gap between white and black students ever was.
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