Increased choice can lead to “pooling” effects–students who have more end up seated next to other students who also have more. Even in systems where geography is the primary determinent of where on goes to school. HOWEVER, if the system operates in a way that some might consider to be largely market driven–that is, when a particular school becomes very popular, it is replicated or expanded, while schools that lag in popularity are minimized or closed, that pooling is greatly diminished. Further, if popularity tracks with quality (big if, I will grant), the overall quality of the system tends to improve.

Try to achieve the dreamy perfection of fully heterogeneous schools by pulling black kids out of the charter schools their parents selected for them and the hollering and screaming that attended forced busing back in the seventies will attractive by comparison.

Although in this report the focus is on charter schools… it seems obvious that are entire public school system is becoming more and more segragated.

I would need to disagree with this statement for both our public school systems as well as our charters.
Equity” is not the same as “integration,” says Eliza Krigman of National Journal.

What is equity and how is it not related to integration???

Reminds me of Plessy.

Where does Brown fit into this discussion?

be well…mike