Pros Of Segregation In Schools

Inherited wealth is very special kind of money put together with the shadows of race. Racial difference in inheritance is key. For most part, blacks will not partake in dividing up the baby boom bounty. The American racist legacy is shutting them out. The grandparents and parents of blacks under the age of forty worked hard under segregation, where education and access to decent jobs and wages were severely restricted. Segregation created an extreme situation in which earlier generation were unable to build up much. “The 1964 Civil Rights Act confirmed the role of the Department of Justice in the national battle against racial discrimination. Congress had established the department's Civil Rights Division in 1957 with a staff of a dozen to …show more content…
Its strategies include “focusing school’s attention on raising test scores, mandating better qualified teachers and providing educational choice”. Unfortunately, the complex requirements of the law have failed to achieve these goals, and have provoked many of unintended negative consequences which frequently harm the students the law is most intended to help. Among these consequences are a narrowed curriculum, focused on the low‐level skills generally reflected on high stakes tests; inappropriate assessment of English language learners and students with special needs; and strong incentives to exclude low‐scoring students from school, to achieve test score targets. In addition, the law fails to address the pressing problems of unequal educational resources across schools serving wealthy and poor children and the shortage of well‐prepared teachers in high‐need schools. A policy that would live up to the law’s name would need to address these issues and reshape the law’s requirements to enable the use of assessments and school improvement strategies that support higher‐quality teaching and