Panelists to talk about race, segregation and achievement in schools
The Open Society Institute-Baltimore is hosting a panel discussion Monday evening called "Can We Talk About How Race Affects Our Classrooms?". It's the next installment in OSI's "Talking About Race" series, and will focus on the impact of continued segregation in public schools on achievement, among other issues.
Monday's panel discussion, which is free and open to the public, is to be led by Beverly Daniel Tatum, president of Spelman College, and David Hornbeck, the former superintendent of Philadelphia schools.
The event will be in the Wheeler Auditorium at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, and starts at 7 p.m.
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Categories: Around the Nation, Baltimore City, School Diversity/Segregation
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Education in the South and the Nation, convened a wide-ranging group of education stakeholders to examine policy alternatives in the aftermath of the 2007 Supreme Court decision Parents Involved (PICS), which undermined many existing school desegregation plans. Despite restrictions placed on assignment policies that considered the individual race of the students, the PICS ruling both affirmed that school districts have a compelling interest in operating integrated schools and left open a number of possible avenues for promoting racially diverse educational settings.
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