“I think this is the kind of work that we should have been engaged in a long time ago, well prior to Obama’s election as a Democratic Party candidate.”
A Duke education policy expert says the state’s charter schools have always been racially imbalanced and it’s only gotten worse. “We’ve got white charter schools – disproportionately white charter schools – and disproportionately minority charter schools. It’s what we’ve worked hard to avoid. It’s a pattern worth worrying about.”
Doctoral student David Winski writes that we primarily remember Martin Luther King as the Nobel Peace Prize-winning civil rights leader, but in the last years of his life King turned his attention to the economic disparities in America that he felt made the achievement of political equality ring hollow.
As the Obama presidency draws to a close, the director of Duke’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences weighs in on how his legacy on race will be perceived.
“Blacks are still elected from districts that are predominantly black. Until there’s a time that blacks can run and win in districts that are not majority-minority, you won’t see significant increases in their representation.”
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“I think this is the kind of work that we should have been engaged in a long time ago, well prior to Obama’s election as a Democratic Party candidate.”
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A Duke education policy expert says the state’s charter schools have always been racially imbalanced and it’s only gotten worse. “We’ve got white charter schools – disproportionately white charter schools – and disproportionately minority charter schools. It’s what we’ve worked hard to avoid. It’s a pattern worth worrying about.”
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Doctoral student David Winski writes that we primarily remember Martin Luther King as the Nobel Peace Prize-winning civil rights leader, but in the last years of his life King turned his attention to the economic disparities in America that he felt made the achievement of political equality ring hollow.
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As the Obama presidency draws to a close, the director of Duke’s Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Social Sciences weighs in on how his legacy on race will be perceived.
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“Blacks are still elected from districts that are predominantly black. Until there’s a time that blacks can run and win in districts that are not majority-minority, you won’t see significant increases in their representation.”
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