By Jake Blumgart, American Prospect February 8, 2016 Housing voucher recipients can move to better neighborhoods only if states and localities break down suburban barriers. For Lorraine Washington, a housing choice voucher, colloquially known as Section 8, represents escape and opportunity. Before her recent move enabled by the subsidy, she lived in the Blumberg … [Read more...] about Tickets Out of Poverty? (American Prospect Februrary 2016)
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Test Comments on civil rights standards in the Rental Assistance Demonstration
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Predicting School Diversity Impacts of State and Local Education Policy: The Role of Title VI (Philip Tegeler, 2016)
By Philip Tegeler. (School Integration Matters: Research-Based Strategies to Advance Equity, Teachers College Press, Edited by Erica Frankenberg, Liliana M. Garces, and Megan Hopkins, 2016) Excerpt: "The Department of Education has made great strides in its recent guidance documents on school discipline and resource disparities. The next step is to move from a complaint and … [Read more...] about Predicting School Diversity Impacts of State and Local Education Policy: The Role of Title VI (Philip Tegeler, 2016)
“Despite the Best Intentions: Making School Integration Work in Integrated Schools” by John B. Diamond & Amanda E. Lewis (November-December 2015 P&R Issue)
By John B. Diamond and Amanda E. Lewis (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) 1In recent decades, the so-called racial “achievement gap” has been a central focus in U.S. educational policy, practice and research.2 While black/white differences in educational outcomes narrowed substantially since the 1970s and most of the 1980s (at least in part as the … [Read more...] about “Despite the Best Intentions: Making School Integration Work in Integrated Schools” by John B. Diamond & Amanda E. Lewis (November-December 2015 P&R Issue)
“Neighborhood Schools – an Etymology” by Michael Hilton (November-December 2015 Issue)
By Michael Hilton (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) The term “neighborhood schools” has a long history in struggles over school integration, often used as a rallying cry by enclaves of well-resourced, usually white citizens to protect the uniform character of their schools and combat desegregation (Hannah-Jones, 2014; Williams, 2015). Following the 1954 Brown … [Read more...] about “Neighborhood Schools – an Etymology” by Michael Hilton (November-December 2015 Issue)