{"id":13929,"date":"2014-05-19T08:45:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13929"},"modified":"2014-05-19T08:45:44","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T08:45:44","slug":"michelle-o-says-students-of-colour-lag-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13929","title":{"rendered":"Michelle O says students of colour lag behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13930\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13930\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/michelleo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13930\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/michelleo-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Michelle kissing the race card\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/michelleo-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/michelleo-70x40.jpg 70w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/michelleo.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13930\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle kissing the race card<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sixty years after the Supreme Court outlawed \u201cseparate but equal\u201d schools for blacks and whites, civil rights advocates say American schools are becoming increasingly segregated, while the first lady, Michelle Obama, lamented that \u201cmany young people are going to schools with kids who look just like them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, by some measures, our schools are as segregated as they were back when Dr. King gave his final speech,\u201d Mrs. Obama told 1,200 graduating high school seniors Friday here in the city that gave rise to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech that was part commencement address, part policy pronouncement and part journey into her own past, Mrs. Obama said that Brown\u2019s advances were being reversed. \u201cMany districts in this country have actually pulled back on efforts to integrate their schools, and many communities have become less diverse,\u201d she said, leading to schools that are less diverse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd too often,\u201d Mrs. Obama said, \u201cthose schools aren\u2019t equal, especially ones attended by students of color which too often lag behind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: NYT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixty years after the Supreme Court outlawed \u201cseparate but equal\u201d schools for blacks and whites, civil rights advocates say American schools are becoming increasingly segregated, while the first lady, Michelle Obama, lamented that \u201cmany young people are going to schools with kids who look just like them.\u201d \u201cToday, by some measures, our schools are as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13929\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michelle O says students of colour lag behind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[5450,2437,1769,8950],"class_list":["post-13929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-civil-rights","tag-michelle-obama","tag-racial-discrimination","tag-the-race-card"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/michelleo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13931,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions\/13931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}