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Thursday, February 3, 2011

Kicking off Black History Month, the Reformies whine that desegregation is too hard. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Kicking off Black History Month, the Reformies whine that desegregation is too hard. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Kicking off Black History Month, the Reformies whine that desegregation is too hard.

February is Black History Month.

Since our public schools are more segregated now than they have been in a quarter century, it is clearly the proper time for the Reformy types, EdSec Arne Duncan included, to complain that it turns out that desegregation is too hard.

I believe that was the wording of Brown v Board of Education. “Separate but equal schools are unlawful unless it is too difficult and complicated to desegregate them.” Uh huh. That was it.

The Reformy Kevin Carey in the Chronicle of Higher Ed:

So it’s not that Arne Duncan and education reformers don’t care about