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Entries by Marc Epstein from 11/2010

The Triumph of Academic Apartheid

| Posted 11.17.2010 | Huffington Post
Read More: Public Schools, High School, Jamaica High School, Education Reform, NYC Schools, Huffington Post News

"Academic apartheid" has become the legacy of education reform, and the small school movement. Our schools are more segregated than ever.

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Killing Me Softly: The Slow Steady Demise of New York's Great High Schools

| Posted 11.23.2010 | Huffington Post
Read More: Ny Department of Education, Public Schools, Nyc Public Schools, Magnet Schools, Cathie Black, Arne Duncan, Huffington Post News

The beginning of the end came, in New York, as in most other urban school systems, as a result of the unintended consequences of busing to achieve integration.

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