“A home within the zone will often cost $200,000 or more than an equivalent home just outside it. This is the real cost of a supposedly “free” public education.”
That’s a damned interesting point.
Regarding the legacy of redlining and education, this is a huge topic with possible huge implications of the “systemic racism” variety. I didn’t…
“A home within the zone will often cost $200,000 or more than an equivalent home just outside it. This is the real cost of a supposedly “free” public education.”
That’s a damned interesting point.
Regarding the legacy of redlining and education, this is a huge topic with possible huge implications of the “systemic racism” variety. I didn’t read the article but the methods in the abstract look thorough. Whatever the data says, bettering education along these lines is not going to be like simple algebra.
If anything, this is an example of systemic classism. But it is really about how capitalism works. Facts are in a capitalistic based economy, those that make more, are able to get more/better of everything. While it has been obvious for a while that whole word reading failed compared to phonetics, the basic problem is with children from poverty circumstances. Jonathon Kozol writing in the 1960s-1980s pointed out the inequalities of schools and for the most part we have remedied it (still some really poor school systems spread out over the country). He also wrote on adult illiteracy. 21% of adults in the USA are illiterate. But over 40% of those are using English as a second or third language. If you would take out those folks, then illiteracy would line up directly with poverty. And poverty can not be remedied merely by the schools. The real enemy to literacy is and has been poverty and that is what needs to be worked on. FYI, Black poverty has dropped from 32% to 17-18% in the last 30 years. Still a ways to go, but it's not like, as a country, we aren't continue to try and improve in this category. Even white poverty (7-8%) is extremely problematic. Looking to the schools to remedy stratification of wealth/income is a wrong headed approach.
So that’s what I was thinking. But there’s also some complexity because the worst redlines zones according to the NatGeo map are: (“Hazardous”): Neighborhoods where Black, Mexican, Asian, Jewish, or other groups lived.
Today these groups perform differently in education. So systemic racism is easier to invoke if demography stayed the same over the last 100 years.
“A home within the zone will often cost $200,000 or more than an equivalent home just outside it. This is the real cost of a supposedly “free” public education.”
That’s a damned interesting point.
Regarding the legacy of redlining and education, this is a huge topic with possible huge implications of the “systemic racism” variety. I didn’t read the article but the methods in the abstract look thorough. Whatever the data says, bettering education along these lines is not going to be like simple algebra.
This is an excellent real world example of systemic racism.
If anything, this is an example of systemic classism. But it is really about how capitalism works. Facts are in a capitalistic based economy, those that make more, are able to get more/better of everything. While it has been obvious for a while that whole word reading failed compared to phonetics, the basic problem is with children from poverty circumstances. Jonathon Kozol writing in the 1960s-1980s pointed out the inequalities of schools and for the most part we have remedied it (still some really poor school systems spread out over the country). He also wrote on adult illiteracy. 21% of adults in the USA are illiterate. But over 40% of those are using English as a second or third language. If you would take out those folks, then illiteracy would line up directly with poverty. And poverty can not be remedied merely by the schools. The real enemy to literacy is and has been poverty and that is what needs to be worked on. FYI, Black poverty has dropped from 32% to 17-18% in the last 30 years. Still a ways to go, but it's not like, as a country, we aren't continue to try and improve in this category. Even white poverty (7-8%) is extremely problematic. Looking to the schools to remedy stratification of wealth/income is a wrong headed approach.
So that’s what I was thinking. But there’s also some complexity because the worst redlines zones according to the NatGeo map are: (“Hazardous”): Neighborhoods where Black, Mexican, Asian, Jewish, or other groups lived.
Today these groups perform differently in education. So systemic racism is easier to invoke if demography stayed the same over the last 100 years.
Yep, there are always confounding variables. Nothing is as simple as the media makes it out to be.