‘The Shame of the Nation’: Separate and Unequal - New York Times

But along with his familiar theme of the inadequacy of the education we provide the children of the poor and minorities, he has a new focus in this book - the return of a substantial degree of segregation in our urban schools. Black and Hispanic students, he writes, are concentrated in schools where they make up almost the entire student body. (I should say that I once opposed the use of the word “segregation” to cover both the state-imposed separation of the races in the South and the concentration of minority students in schools outside the South, which arises for a number of reasons, but that is a lost cause - today we use “segregation” for both.)

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