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| School desegregation and the fear years May 30, 2012 11:48 am | Jonathan Simon UC Berkeley Professor David Kirp’s powerful op-ed in the May 20th Sunday Review section of The New York Times (read it here) restating the overwhelming social-science case in favor of school desegregation drew a bevy of weighty and thoughtful letters in the New York Times (read them here). That evidence shows that the educational gap between Whites and Blacks, recently embraced by both parties as the holy grail of reducing the accumulating disadvantages of generations of de jure racial segregation in America, shrank the most substantially during those years between 1970 and 1990 when school desegregation orders were most active in ... More > | ||
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Wednesday, May 30, 2012
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