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The challenging mathematics of producing economically integrated schools
- 05-11-2011
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Blog by Matthew Yglesias/Think Progress
I remarked on Twitter late last week that it would be helpful to integrate certain education policy debates with housing policy controversies. After all, the super-naive answer to poorly performing public school systems is that families should just move. Every metropolitan area in the country includes a wide array of school districts and many districts contain a wide array of schools. Of course in practice that answer’s not available to poor families, but there are policy reasons that it’s not possible. But the Century Foundation took an important look at this issue with Heather Schwarz’s report (PDF) “Housing Policy Is School Policy: Economically Integrative Housing Promotes Academic Success In Montgomery County, Marland” about the education policy benefits of Montgomery Country’s inclusionary zoning. The benefits here are substantial, but this passage also serves as an indication of how difficult to math is: (more...)
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