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Segregation Schmegregation

By Philip Preville
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I hate to bring it up, but…

If this works—which is to say, if it produces a decline in dropout rates among Caribbean-born students, and eventually swells the ranks of black high-school, college and university graduates, which in turn will improve their opportunities, incomes, quality of life and sense of belonging, and arguably save a few lives along the way—then we will all have to wonder why we clung for so long to a system of education that did such a disservice to diversity. We might even have to reconsider why we are so dead-set against this. "

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