School segregation

1914
United States

A set of segregation processes that are linked to the school system and environment. There are a various number of approaches to discriminatory practices in the educational system, which involve the exclusion of certain groups from common schools and the inequity in access to quality education. Historically, ethnic, and racial minorities were the main affected in these processes, while currently low-income, refugees and women are also included in this group. The most common cases involve difficulties in access to schools for legal and financial reasons, or the low quality of educational institutions located in areas mostly occupied by discriminated groups. Academic success and the maintenance of segregation throughout life are some of the outcomes debated in these cases. Other studies address segregation within schools, investigating the formation of friendship relationships, or the absence of relations, between individuals from different racial and ethnic groups and from different academic backgrounds. Single gender and single faith schools also appear as form of school segregation in different contexts, including religious control of the educational system, family choices and discrimination.

See also

friendship segregation; academic segregation

References

Valencia, Richard R. "Chicano students and the courts: The Mexican American legal struggle for educational equality." Chicano Students and the Courts. New York University Press, 2008.

Allen, Rebecca, and Anna Vignoles. "What should an index of school segregation measure?." Oxford Review of Education 33.5 (2007): 643-668.

McLaren, Kristin. "" We had no desire to be set apart": Forced Segregation of Black Students in Canada West Public Schools and Myths of British Egalitarianism." Histoire sociale/Social History (2004).