Changes triggered by the civil rights movement, the diversity of immigrants to the United States, and an increasing awareness of ethnic identity. Tensions can exist among different racial and ethnic groups despite the presence of those groups in the United States for generations.
Group conflicts can affect academic achievement as well as social relationships.
Thus this Digest discusses these tensions in our schools and suggests various ways to reduce them. Many patterns of racial and ethnic group relations in our schools are based on the ways that members of a given racial or ethnic group have been included or excluded within American society. There are also conflicts within ethnic groups. Schools have historically helped include newcomers in American society and continue to do so. Today, racial and ethnic relations are more complicated.