Race and poverty remain connected and neither can be resolved by schools alone but neither they can they be resolved without education. Schools may be segregated by a socio-economic gravity pull toward sameness. The historical phenomenon of moves to the suburbs was motivated by families pulled toward schools and communities where resources were more plentiful. It is also part of our history that schools can help students out of poverty, one by one, and attain higher achievement and be better prepared for college and career. Everyday educators struggle to do that.  But, the segregation mountain created by race and socio-economic level is a resistant one, deeply embedded in the fabric of our society and it does not want to erode away.

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