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Potter, Halley – Century Foundation, 2019
In 2014, a study by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that New York State had the most segregated schools in the country, more segregated than the school systems in the deep south. In recent years, however, attention to and action on school integration in New York has grown. Through groups such as Teens Take Charge, IntegrateNYC, and the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, School Segregation, School Desegregation, School Districts
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Valiente, Oscar; Rambla, Xavier – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2009
This study estimates the trends of school segregation in Catalonia (Spain) between 2001 and 2006. Currently, new immigration has reopened the debate about the "Other Catalans" triggered by concern with the integration of the incoming population. An "intersectional approach" to social divisions suggests that class and ethnic…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Public Schools, Private Schools, School Segregation
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Chitty, Clyde – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2007
The author argues that faith schools serve to exacerbate existing divisions in society and are therefore a threat to social cohesion. In many parts of Britain where segregation is already a reality, "faith" has now become another word for "race". Ethnic groups are not evenly spread between the religions, creating a situation…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Religious Education, Private Schools, Foreign Countries