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Why America needs a new approach to school desegregation

  • Written by Jerry Rosiek, Professor of Education Studies, University of Oregon
Despite decades of attempts at integration, America's school remain largely segregated.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock

Despite all the time and effort invested desegregating the nation’s schools over the past half century, the reality is America’s schools are more segregated now than they were in 1968.

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