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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda Elementary is a good case example for why [b]forced integration[/b] will most likely not change the achievement gap. For those who don't know, BES is in downtown Bethesda, in the middle of "affluenza," with a 7.6% FARMS rate. In the most recent report card, 70.3% of the overall student body was proficient in mathematics. The African-American percent proficient was 23.1% and the Latino was 55.3%. Asian was 89.7%. Look at any similar down-county school and you'll see these cross-tabs repeated. These are kids surrounded by children of high achievers, and yet, it doesn't seem to be helping. What else can a school do to close the "achievement gap"? Blindfold the asian kids? Send social workers home with the Hispanic and Af-Am kids to change the learning environment? These are structural, systemic problems that probably won't go away by remixing school populations. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.[/quote]

There was a lot of talk about the futility of "forced integration" in the 1950s and 1960s, too - by people who wanted to preserve and maintain segregation.[/quote]

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