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Statistics recorded from "What Happened to Brown?", a review by Kathleen Sullivan in the New York Review of Books:

• White students make up two thirds of the American school-age population, but on average they attend schools that are 80 percent white.
• Fewer than 10 percent of black students attend schools whose students are mostly white.
• Only 10 percent of white students attend schools in which minority students predominate.
• The students in some school systems, like the Mott Haven elementary schools in the Bronx, are over 99 percent black or from other minorities.

Labels: education, NYRB, race