USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -School segregation in the United States is the separation of students based on their ethnicity.

Detailed explanation-2: -(c) The term “segregation” means the operation of a school system in which students are wholly or substantially separated among the schools of an educational agency on the basis of race, color, sex, or national origin or within a school on the basis of race, color, or national origin.

Detailed explanation-3: -1. The separation of learners in terms of race and ethnicity, leading to the establishment of separate schools for learners in apartheid South Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -American schools today are also highly segregated by economic status. Racial redlining of neighborhoods has been replaced with exclusionary zoning policies that keep low-income families out of certain communities. Housing markets are heavily impacted by school district boundaries and attendance zones.

Detailed explanation-5: -While the overall public school population has increased in diversity, and a majority of students are now nonwhite, schools remain highly segregated by race, ethnicity, and economic status, according to a newly released report by researchers from the University of Southern California and Stanford University.