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White Flight in Higher Education     Email    Printer-Friendly
Richard D. Kahlenberg, The Century Foundation, 6/4/2010
The other day, I commented in this space on a disturbing new U.S. Department of Education report finding a 42% increase in the proportion of students attending high poverty elementary and secondary schools since 2000.  Black and Latino students attend these schools in disproportionate numbers.But as I note in a new post in the Chronicle of Higher Education, something similar appears to be happening in higher education: as whites are increasingly fleeing less selective and non-selective schools and African Americans are increasing their representation at those schools. Continue Reading on the Taking Note Blog.


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