Schools and segregation – a positive example

The importance of socio-economic background will become increasingly important for school success. But segregation in the school area is steadily growing and inequality is increasing, a development that has been caused by the increased possibilities to choose school for your children. But it need not be so.

In Nyköping the political parties agreed to do something about the situation and decided to merge four schools with very different compositions of students, into one big hight school. The result: meetings between students who previously lived in different worlds, AND better study results. The so-called "Nyköping model" is now being praised by Jämlikhetsfonden, where our CEO Gustaf Arrhenius is engaged.

One problem that this model is not able to affect, is the fact that today's education market lives on segregation. In an opinion piece, Jämlikhetsfonden calls out to politicians at both the national level and the local level, to take actions that can ensure that schools live up to what the law and the curriculum say about schools shall be equal for everyone and serve as a social and cultural meeting place .

Read the opinion piece (in Swedish)