Thursday, July 22, 2010

The diversification of Texas' suburban schools | THE EDUCATION FRONT Blog | dallasnews.com

The diversification of Texas' suburban schools | THE EDUCATION FRONT Blog | dallasnews.com

The diversification of Texas' suburban schools

I want to call to your attention Katherine Leal Unmuth's' article in Sunday's Morning News about Irving facing the same kind of school challenges that Dallas and other urban districts encounter. This is the type of trend story that's worth reading because the diversification of Texas' suburbs is getting ready to be one of the state's major new realities.
If it hasn't already become one. Author Joel Kotkin, whose book "The Next Hundred Million: America 2050" is the focus of the DMN's Summer Book Club, reports how in once whitebread places like Fort Bend County you find mosques and ethnic restaurants. His contention is that suburbs will become increasingly diverse as America becomes more diverse.
That's the conclusion of a recent Brookings Institution look at Dallas-Fort Worth. According to Unmuth, Brookings "found that in 2008 in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, about 47 percent of the population living below the