Deepening Segregation In Schools Missed By Mainstream Media

by Mike Smith · 2009-10-04 12:57:00 UTC
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Are schools today more segregated than in the 1950s? That's the conclusion of a UCLA study that was missed by the mainstream media earlier this year, so much so that it's one of the Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010; "the 25 most significant news stories that were largely ignored or misrepresented by the mainstream press," explains the San Francisco Guardian.

Appearing alongside stories of US arms being used for war-crimes, and the carbon-trading fiasco, the story of deepening segregation is an important one. It explains that millions of non-white student are locked into "drop-out factory" high-schools, finding that "the two largest minority groups, attend schools more segregated today than during the civil rights movement forty years ago."

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Mike Smith is associate editor at Change.org.
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