Mapping Schoolhouse Segregation

Sixty years afterward the 'Brown vs Board of Education' Supreme Court ruling that state laws establishing separate populace schools for dark too white students was unconstitutional the Miami Herald has been exploring whether Miami-Dale's schools are nonetheless segregated.

The Miami Herald's written report into The Changing Demographics of Miami-Dade Schools includes a revealing interactive map, which allows readers to explore the demographic of 460 Miami-Dade schools.

The map uses colored map markers to highlight schools on the map where 85% or to a greater extent than of the students are dark or Hispanic. You tin hand notice choose private schools on the map to thought the consummate demographic make-up of the pupil body, with percentages for the number of black, white, Hispanic too 'other' students.

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The sectarian separate inward Northern Republic of Ireland has resulted inward a large proportion of people living inward areas where the population are either predominantly Protestant or predominantly Roman Catholic. To overcome this religious 'apartheid' too to ensure that the children of both religions are non segregated Northern Republic of Ireland needs inclusive schools, schools where pupils are able to mix too acquire amongst children of other religions.

Unfortunately Northern Ireland's schools are equally segregated equally the residuum of Northern Republic of Ireland society. According to The Detail "almost one-half of Northern Ireland’s schoolchildren are beingness taught inward schools where 95% or to a greater extent than of the pupils are of the same religion".

The Detail has used information from the Department of Education to map the religious segregation inward Northern Ireland's schools. The Detail's Segregated Schools map reveals the percent of Roman Catholic too Protestant pupils inward each of Northern Ireland's schools.