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Friday, February 11, 2011

How Bad Is "Hyper-Segregation" In Chicago? - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

How Bad Is "Hyper-Segregation" In Chicago? - District 299: Chicago Public Schools Blog

How Bad Is "Hyper-Segregation" In Chicago?

What's the racial and socioeconomic breakdown in your school? What would you say is the breakdown (roughly) on your block or in your neighborhood? How about among your friends and family? The reason I ask is that University of Chicago researcher Adam Green says that Chicago isn't merely segregated but rather "hypersegregated" in ways that make it far worse than other cities like Cincinnati, Cleveland, Baltimore and St. Louis and almost as bad as