The Hunterdon Central students have less contact with people of African descent than the Asbury Park students have with Caucasian people. Said another way, Hunterdon Central is more racially isolated than Asbury Park. However, despite being more racially isolated, Hunterdon Central students were more comfortable, on average, interacting with students of other races than were Asbury Park students. The activities depart dramatically from the standard menu of imposed programs wrapped in supposed solutions. Each has made some difference but not enough.
Students remain advantaged or impeded by accidents of birth, economics and geography.
Answers are likely to lie somewhere between the enthusiasms of technophiles and the cynicism of technophobes. Technology will not make racism disappear. How significant that fraction is will be addressed through the evaluation. Jonathan Becker, J.D., M.Ed. is Projects Director and a research analyst at Interactive, Inc., a technology development and evaluation firm in Huntington, NY, and a doctoral student in the Politics and Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Resegregation in American Schools .