myPerspectives English Language Arts
myPerspectives English Language Arts
1st Edition
Savvas Learning Co
ISBN: 9780133338805
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Page 374: Comprehension Check

Exercise 1
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The focus of the Stanford study was to “take a comprehensive look at whether the court-ordered busing successfully ended the legacy of Jim Crow in public education” (Garland, paragraph 2).
Exercise 2
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Garland uses the term, “school re-segregation,” which refers to the school districts “that stopped forcing schools to mix students by race” and how this resulted in a “return to isolation” or a “re-segregation” in schools, especially elementary schools (Garland, paragraph 2).
Exercise 3
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The height of desegregation, according to the article, occurred during the 1970s and 80s (Garland, paragraph 6).
Exercise 4
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Garland says that there were burdens of desegregation placed on black families, which included that their children had to spend more time commuting, many black schools had been closed to make “desegregation more convenient for whites” and many black teachers were fired (Garland, paragraph 7).
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The demise of desegregation teaches that nothing really compares to a desegregated schools for the improvement of outcomes for minority students.
Exercise 6
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This text discusses how there has been a large and scary push for re-segregated school districts, which does not helps minority students at all.
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