Bellwether Education's Andrew Rotherham has penned an atypically sensible article on income-based integration?atypically sensible, that is, for pieces about income-based integration, which tend to be flowery and na?ve, and not for pieces that Rotherham writes, which are often quite prudent. Despite what the Century Foundation's Richard Kahlenberg will tell you, using families' incomes to determine where their children will attend school?a practice that often involves sending students to class miles and miles from their homes?is neither popular nor practical. Unfortunately, though, it is resilient, one of those exhausted ideas that is nevertheless occasionally resurrected, dusted off, and returned to the edu-shop's front window. Caveat emptor.
?Liam Julian, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow