We cannot ignore the disparity in resources that continue to plague many of our school systems, especially those serving predominantly inner-city minority and impoverished children.
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As we segregate by income into different communities, schools in lower-income areas have fewer resources than ever.
As somebody who visits countless schools, I see firsthand the dire situation our educational system faces.
Across the globe, disadvantaged children are not living up to their potential because if they attend school at all, the schools are usually not designed to meet their extra needs.
We are now operating a school system in America that's more segregated than at any time since the death of Martin Luther King.
All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.
Kids in urban and rural areas face so many challenges, and they show up at schools that don't have the extra capacity or extra resources to meet their needs.
It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.
And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particularly with respect to how they're serving minority children.
We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.
We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.
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