CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Felix, Brynn Elyse |
|---|---|
| Title | The Path to Quality Education: Segregation and School Reform in the United States and Hungary |
| Summary | Access to quality education largely remains a privilege of the socio-economically advantaged and frequently excludes the children of marginalized racial groups. Such is the experience of millions African-Americans, Latinos, and other minorities in the United States, as well as countless Roma schoolchildren in Hungary. Contrary to what was once believed, segregation is not the root of all ills; the culprit is poverty and racial discrimination. These two factors, exacerbated by de facto residential segregation, perpetuate the cycles of exclusion and educational inequality. No longer is the U.S. intent on desegregating schools as a means of closing the achievement gap; the cutting edge of U.S reform efforts is now focused on equalizing education by improving the quality of education received by the disadvantaged students who attend de facto segregated schools. Rather than advocating that Hungary pour its resources into the inorganic integration of its schools, I will argue that importing charter schools and investing in teacher training would better serve Roma schoolchildren in the long run. Integration is still an important and laudable long-term goal, but focusing resources on what currently remains an aspirational and possibly barren enterprise undermines the separate and more pressing purpose of improving educational prospects for Roma. Segregated education, while undeniably pernicious, is not in itself the largest or most immediate barrier before the right to quality education. |
| Supervisor | Kollonay-Lehoczky, Csilla |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/felix_brynn.pdf |
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