Choice: The route to community control?

Dean of the School Board: An Oral History of the Distinguished Career of G. Holmes Braddock

“…Even when desegregation was achieved, "claims persist that segregation still continues under the guise of school tracking and grouping practices" (Weiler, 1998, p. 5). This finding was supported by Margonis and Parker (1999) who found that "African American students were over-represented in educable mentally handicapped classes, under-represented in gifted classes, underrepresented in rates of graduation, and subjected to higher levels of corporal punishment and suspensions than Anglo students" (p. 205). And while more Black students are graduating from high school, performing better on standardized tests, and attending college, Samuel Harvey points out that "the gap between white and African-American achievement remains substantial" (The Woodstock Report, 1993, p. 3).…”