Mixed Messages

Autor/in	Gewertz, Catherine
Titel	Mixed Messages
Quelle	In: Education Week, 23 (2004) 31, S.36-40 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; High School Students; Student Diversity; Disproportionate Representation; White Students; African American Students; Hispanic American Students; Asian American Students; Immigrants; Peer Influence; Low Achievement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; African Americans; Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; Asian immigrant; United States; Asiatischer Einwanderer; USA; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Unterdurchschnittliche Leistung
Abstract	Beyond the walls of Wakefield High School, race and ethnicity have carved clear patterns throughout the 19,000-student Arlington school district. The busing that sought to even the distribution of black and white children in the schools ended more than a decade ago, allowing housing patterns--wealthier, white families in north Arlington, lower-income black and Hispanic families in the south, Asian families scattered more evenly throughout--to be replicated in the schools. This would have been impossible 50 years ago, as the U.S. Supreme Court prepared to hand down its decision in "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka", outlawing systems of racially segregated public schools. Wakefield trails the other two high schools on state and college-entrance tests, and enrolls fewer students in advanced coursework. Districtwide, racial and ethnic achievement gaps persist, as white and Asian students outpace their black and Latino peers. This article discusses two keys in accomplishing Arlington administrators' aim of enabling black and Latino students to flourish. (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	Editorial Projects in Education. 6935 Arlington Road Suite 100, Bethesda, MD 20814-5233. Tel: 800-346-1834; Tel: 301-280-3100; e-mail: customercare@epe.org; Web site: http://www.edweek.org/info/about/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10