Enriching Education
Alan Gottlieb,
Denver Post,
Jul 26, 2002
Weird logic. This article cites the disparity of achievement between schools with low income students and schools with high income students. It argues that there needs to be integration in schools of people from different income brackets. But instead of forced integration, the idea is to entice students from rich neighbourhods to attend schools in low income neighbourhoods by, as they did in Raleigh, making inner city schools so attractive higher income students would clamour to get in. And, according to the article, "it worked." Well sure. But not because the savoir faire of the rich magically rubbed off on the poor, but because they finally spent some money on schools for low income neighbourhoods. Anyhow, the concept is called "economic integration" and is, if you ask me, just one more attempt to rationalize severe income disparity without actually doing anything about it.
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