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Racial Segregation: Annotated Bibliography

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Racial segregation is apart of our educational history. The article The Return of School Segregation in Eight Charts, explains 8 headings that entail segregations of race and poverty, integrations and trend over the years. I did not realize that Latino students are the leading segregated schools by 57% of their schools population is Latino. There is a “dissimilarity index” that shows the balance of integration. I feel that all schools are not going to have the same opportunity to the ethnically balanced due to the population of the area they are located. Even with court over sight there will never be a specific balance but there will be a percentage of ethnic populations within each school. This website also has links to a great article

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