Focus on Social Problems
In the U.S. in 2000 what percent of Black students attended predominantly minority schools? When was the low point in that measure?
1. What percent of African American and Latino students attend schools with a minority enrollment of 90 to 100 percent?
2. What did the 1966 Coleman Report find?
3. What does the phrase “concentrated poverty” refer to?
4. What is an “apartheid school”?
5. What was the core principle in the Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson ruling?
6. What did the experimental study of African American high school youth who attended suburban and city schools reveal?
7. What role do upper-class parents play in securing quality education for their kids?
8. What is the most unequally distributed school resource in the U.S.?
9. In California in 2001 students in the most intensely minority schools were how much more likely to have uncertified teachers than those in predominantly White schools?
