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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^.  In urban centers like DC where around a quarter of minority kids lives in poverty, you can either have fairly constructive partial economic segregation, or near total unconstructive economic segregation.

Two simple, no-brainer reasons.  Reason 1: you can't force upper-middle-class families to stay in schools where parents worry about academic challenge and negative social influences.  Reason 2: the high-SESmostly white/low-SES mostly minority gap remains large.

So you can have schools like Brent and Maury, with a low enough percentage of low-SES kids that high-SES parents stick around, or gifted and talented programs designed to enable a minority of low-SES kids to keep up with a majority of high-SES kids (NYC borough-wide model).  What you can't have are a lot of low-SES and high-SES kids in the same classes in the same schools past around 2nd grade.  If you doubt this, look at what's been happening at Watkins since the early 90s.  The well-intentioned but deeply impractical Capitol Hill Cluster rejects economic segregation but gets it in a big way (a little more all the time).

For those who think that KIPP is abusive, there are other, kinder, ES charter franchises catering to low-income minority kids to pick from.  Achievement Prep boasts higher test scores than KIPP, and SEED does well.  Scores for AA kids at Wash Latin are good deal lower than in more economically segregated schools.  Scores obviously aren't everything of course, but think about scores anyway if you will.[/quote]
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