This American Life explains why school segregation still exists — and is so hard to change [Vox.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/5/154:00 AM

School integration has shrunk steadily for nearly three decades: Ever since 1988, the number of black students and white students who attend school together has decreased. And the achievement gap between black and white students has grown.

Sunday's This American Life provided a potent look at how hard it is to reverse that trend, and how strong the resistance to school integration still is. Nikole Hannah-Jones of the New York Times Magazine reported from Missouri's Normandy School District, where Ferguson's Michael Brown went to school before he was shot by police officer Darren Wilson last August.

[For more go to http://www.vox.com/2015/8/3/90...ion-still-exists-and]

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