Diversity vs. equality: Why the education of Roma children does not work

This article takes up the question of why recent efforts to reform Roma education have been largely unsuccessful. Using case studies, the authors identify and discuss situations that have produced poor results: good intentions and bad realisations, good intentions and good realisations, and misguided intentions and bad realisations. They suggest in conclusion that as long as underlying cultural and structural conditions are not transformed, Roma education reform will not produce the desired results.