Here's two other perspectives on this subject:

More On Desegregation/Resegregation Options ; By George E. Curry
The Curry Report for "Black New Yorkers For Educational Excellence"

"...schools in the South and Border states among the most desegregated in the nation. On the other hand, schools in New York, Illinois, California and Michigan were the most segregated, with the average Black students attending schools that had less than a quarter of students who were White.

Unlike the 1960s, school desegregation is no longer a Black/White
paradigm. Latinos are the fastest- growing group in the U.S. and ...
"Latino segregation is higher than black segregation on some measures in the South and West," the Harvard study said. "In the West, where Latinos are concentrated, 81 percent of Latinos are in schools with nonwhite majorities, followed by 78 percent in the Northeast and South."

Schools are a preview of what is to come.

"Since the 2000 Census a great deal has been written about the
demographic transformation underway in many American communities as the U.S. moves toward the day when citizens of European background will no longer be the majority, but the changes are much more rapid and dramatic in the school age population," the report stated.

Although the White population in the U.S. is not projected to dwindle to 50 percent until 2050, that ratio has already been reached in many schools systems...

But no one should be confused about why African- Americans sought to
enroll in desegregated schools.

"There is no evidence that the long struggle of civil rights groups to end segregation was only motivated by a desire to have minority children sit next to white children," the Harvard report stated. "There was a strong belief that predominantly white schools offered better opportunities on many levels..."

It is disturbing that at a time when the U.S. is undergoing a major
demographic transition, few high-ranking officials have publicly voiced the need for all groups to prepare to live in a fast-approaching multi-cultural society in which Whites will be in a minority and no group will constitute a majority"...

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http://www.cal.org/resources/Digest/0009programs.html
December 2000
"Programs That Prepare Teachers to Work Effectively With Students Learning English" Josué M. González and Linda Darling-Hammond

Introductory statement:
"Schools and teacher education programs have begun to rethink preservice and inservice professional development to take into account the need for teachers to work effectively with students learning English. New approaches to teacher education are based on the belief that English language learners' access to challenging content can be enhanced through teaching strategies that provide multiple pathways to the understanding of language and content. Because students must use language to acquire academic content in mainstream classes, second language teaching must be integrated with the social, cultural, and political contexts of language use.

This digest provides a summary of some of the problems associated with traditional teacher education and describes preservice and inservice programs that prepare teachers to work effectively with English language learners".