UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:51:36 -0700
Anthony West wrote:
In the course of his columnar duties, Hughes wrote a very interesting column on ... that's right, the Penn Alexander School and real estate! Check it out at _http://www.mahughes.org/showarticles.cfm?artid=207_. Hah! That just about clinches it ... whatever "it" means.-- Tony West
Someone reported off list they couldn't get to Mark Alan Hughes' column about the Penn Alexander School by the link below. Beats me!But google takes me to Hughes' website, mahughes.org/. His PAS column is seventh on the list of "20 all-time favorites".-- Tony West
the person probably couldn't get to the page because the url that was posted appears with an underscore at either end. the person should make sure to copy the url without those underscores...
I read hughes' opinion piece and liked his honesty here:
"Catchment areas, because they create winners and losers,
also create profound political problems."
and here:
"Without the political power of an institution like Penn,
however, it's impossible to enforce devices like
catchment areas that limit liability."
but I think it's time for people to stop saying this:
"a fabulous school that is, in fact, predominantly
African-American"
as some kind of proof of the penn-assisted school's
model-worthy diversity or accessibility. it's not in itself
a significant statement, when you consider that the school's
student body is still made up of those who were
grandfathered into the catchment area. a more telling
statistic for hughes to cite would be the number of
african-americans and non-african-americans who have bought
houses in the catchment area since the school was built.
anybody have those figures? the philly weekly article that
started this whole discussion gave some anecdotal evidence,
that the number of african americans on a particular block
had dropped from 4 to 0.
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