Examines how current policies and philanthropic priorities create high-poverty, racially isolated charter schools, benefits of socioeconomically diverse charter schools, and approaches taken in successful examples. Proposes policy and funding reforms.
- Observation: Socioeconomically and racially diverse charter schools offer civic, social, and cognitive benefits for all students, provide resources for improving academic performance, foster experimentation with new pedagogical approaches, and broaden the political constituency for charters.
- Observation: The experiences of academically successful charter schools with diverse student bodies reveal a variety of approaches to making integration work, including intentional location, targeted student recruitment, weighted admissions, thoughtful pedagogies and academic success, and school cultures that embrace diversity.
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- Copyright 2012 Poverty & Race Research Action Council; Century Foundation.
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