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Thank you for your reply. Let me try to address your points. The programs often try to leave the community as a whole better off. You hint at this point in the closing sentence. Well, the same is argued here. The school placement system has the intention of furthering integration and a better society that this brings. As a whole, even if some ...
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The Breakfast Table
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pryoslice
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June 30, 2007
A meaningful solution to school assignments
Whether you assign secondary schools by race or income, the same problems arises. Some kid is going to have to go to a different, probably more distant, probably also lower quality, school than his or her neighbors. Maybe because of race. Or because he or she is poor. Or just lives in a white neighborhood. There's obviously a problem here. Most ...
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pryoslice
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June 29, 2007