Standardized Tests Increase School Segregation
Let’s say your community has two schools.
One serves mostly white students and the other serves mostly black students.
How do you eliminate such open segregation?
After all, in 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court struck down school segregation in Brown vs. Board of Education as essentially separate and unequal.
It’s been nearly 70 years. We must have a recourse to such things these days. Mustn’t we?
Well, the highest court in the land laid down a series of decisions, starting with Milliken vs. Bradley in 1974, that effectively made school integration voluntary especially within district lines. So much so, in fact, that according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office, from 2000 to 2014, school segregation CONTINUE READING: Standardized Tests Increase School Segregation | gadflyonthewallblog
