Charter Schools Aren’t Resegregating American Education

According to the Washington Post, a new study from two professors at Stanford University and the University of Southern California finds that segregation in schools is on the rise, and school choice is to blame. Quite a damning accusation, except that it’s not true.

To begin, there are discrepancies in these newly reported statistics on the supposed increase in segregation, ranging from 25 percent to over one-third, depending on who’s citing the study and when. The researchers, Sean Reardon and Ann Owens, published their conclusions earlier this month to commemorate the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education but have yet to release an official paper.

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Daniel Buck is a research fellow and the director of the Conservative Education Reform Network at the American Enterprise Institute.

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According to the Washington Post, a new study from two professors at Stanford University and the University of Southern California finds that segregation in schools is on the rise, and school choice is to blame. Quite a damning accusation, except that it’s not true.

To begin, there are discrepancies in these newly reported statistics on the supposed increase in segregation, ranging from 25 percent to over one-third, depending on who’s citing the study and when. The researchers, Sean Reardon and Ann Owens, published their conclusions earlier this month to commemorate the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education but have yet to release an official paper.