Knoxify

Accord­ing to a data dump at the New York Times they are. When sorted appro­pri­ately, Remade in Amer­ica dis­plays stu­dent pop­u­la­tion growth amongst Blacks, His­pan­ics, and Asians in the Knox County school sys­tem. Mean­while, the White pop­u­la­tion fell by 7%.

So, what does all of this mean? Accord­ing to the Times:

Immigration’s impact is often first seen in the class­room. The increas­ing diver­sity of the nation’s edu­ca­tion sys­tem is the most detailed mea­sure of where immi­grants have set­tled in recent years.

This set of data also states that in 1987 there was a 24% chance that two Knox Co. stu­dents selected at ran­dom would be mem­bers of a dif­fer­ent eth­nic group. In 2006, that num­ber rose to 34%.

To all of the par­ents out there — and I’m not one of them: Do you think Knox County schools are embrac­ing the growth in diver­sity as they should be?

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