Racial Boundaries in Public Education

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This paper begins with a general overview of the African-American experience beginning with the era of slavery and ending in present times. The paper discusses the persistent problem in public education regarding racial boundaries. The paper looks at the various measures that have been attempted in an effort to eliminate these boundaries and explains some of the advantages and disadvantages of these measures.

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"Over 50% of Blacks settled in the eastern part of the District or in Prince George's County, while the majority in the Western part in Montgomery County and the suburbs of Virginia are predominantly white (Turner and Hayes 1997). Furthermore, more than half or 52% of the total increase in the suburban black population happened between 1980 and 1990 in Prince George's County, reflecting the huge expansion of the African American population inside and outside of the Beltway. The poor blacks, however, did not fully benefit from or share in the growing suburbanization of Washington's African American population, with the majority of poor African Americans in the District and a quarter of them living in very high levels and conditions of poverty (Turner and Hayes)."

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