What does this look like? We can all be aware of diversity, and we can have diversity training, but is that enough? How would we implement a "diverse workforce"? Community engagement makes sense, but making people culturally aware is harder problem than is presented here.

This statement is confusing I think I would like to see the research. I would want to know more about the variables that they tested. Perhaps disciplinary rates were high in the poverty concentrated schools, because of inadequate teaching techniques, or maybe the staff was not given enough funding to provide alternative disciplinary action besides suspension.

Transactional processes! I am learning in my developmental psychopathology classes about this concept. It is so important to understand teacher bias and how it relates to the outcome of a child. Yes there are many factors that may lead to a different outcome, but several studies have shown that a child who is treated even slightly differently will notice and so will his peers. Who follow by example and unconsciously treat him different as well. The inequality in treatment I think leads to inequality is schools. I know parents who purposefully drive their kids to a different preschool in order to have their child interact with students who are the same race as them. They feel that if he/she is the only one int he preschool who is non-white that he/she will get picked on. So, I think that this difference in treatment just furthers segregation even in preschool.

I found this concept intriguing, because growing up I knew that the "nicer houses" (the suburbs) had the nice schools. The public schools, were most of the students in my town went were overflowing and basically failing, while the suburban schools had waitlists. If you lived near the school you had an automatic admission to the high school, but if you lived even 5 miles away you had to be on the waitlist to get in. It is surprising to me that I never realized that my own city experienced this racial segregation.

I took a class that reminded of me of this issue. We discussed how parts of oakland, especially neighborhoods that lived under or near the highway were practically the only place for ethnic communities to live. First because rent was the cheapest, and second becuase this was the only place that renters would rent to them. It was known throughout the community that in that time, if you were black you could only rent from a certain neighborhood. Community sponsored is one thing, state sponsored brings it to a whole new level.

This reminds me of the article I read titled "White Flight" this is a true example of that definition. It is interesting to me that there were 70 attempts, and yet not one wanted to try and fix what was already there.