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What does it mean?
Blaming integration for current problems ignores other factors like tolerating failing schools.
In plain terms
Integration is not the main cause of black community problems; poor schools are.
What can you take from it?
Look beyond integration to understand community challenges.

Where it applies

  • policy debate
  • education reform
  • community analysis

Putting it to work

  • audit school quality
  • study causal factors
  • check narratives

Questions to consider

  • What factors really drive community problems?
  • How do we judge policy impacts?

Another view

Integration changes community dynamics in ways that can be challenging.

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