By Andrew Grant-Thomas (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) A couple years ago, my daughter, Lola, and I signed up for a weekly evening course called "Watching the Nighttime Sky" at a local college. Lola was 5, a voracious reader, and waaaay into learning about the solar system and the universe. The little girl could name Jupiter's four visible … [Read more...] about “EmbraceRace: An Emerging Community of Support for Raising Kids in the Context of Race” by Andrew Grant-Thomas (November-December 2015 P&R Issue)
Browse School Diversity at PRRAC
PRRAC strongly supports federal, state and local efforts to increase racial and economic integration in K-12 education. We do this work primarily with and through the National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD), which we helped to found in 2009 along with former staff from the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School, and leadership of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU. Members of the NCSD Steering Committee include the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, PRRAC, ACLU, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, MALDEF, AALDEF, Kirwan Institute, NY Appleseed, UNC Center for Civil Rights, and the UCLA Civil Rights Project, along with a small group of prominent legal scholars. Since 2009, PRRAC has served as the primary staff and fiscal agent for the NCSD, with active support from many of the NCSD member organizations for specific advocacy campaigns, and volunteer contributions by members of the NCSD Research Advisory Panel.
For more on PRRAC’s work on education and school diversity, visit our page on the Housing-School Nexus.
“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 & 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 … [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)
“Diversity in Preschool Classrooms: The Link Between Diversity and Quality” by Jeanne L. Reid, Sharon L. Kagan, Michael Hilton & Halley Potter (May-June 2015 P&R Issue)
By Jeanne L. Reid, Sharon L. Kagan, Michael Hilton & Halley Potter (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Abundant data, widely popularized by public information campaigns, have given early childhood education (ECE) a prominent position on the public agenda. But is our society fully capitalizing on the opportunity such attention affords and the significant … [Read more...] about “Diversity in Preschool Classrooms: The Link Between Diversity and Quality” by Jeanne L. Reid, Sharon L. Kagan, Michael Hilton & Halley Potter (May-June 2015 P&R Issue)
Education Segregation of the nation’s children starts with preschool, new report finds (Washington Post)
By Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post April 29, 2015 Publicly funded preschools across the country are largely segregated by race and income, and poor children are typically enrolled in the lowest quality programs, according to a new report released Wednesday by researchers at the National Center for Children and Families at Teachers College, Columbia University. … [Read more...] about Education Segregation of the nation’s children starts with preschool, new report finds (Washington Post)
A Better Start: Why Classroom Diversity Matters in Early Education (PRRAC-Century Foundation, April 2015)
A Century Foundation-PRRAC Report (April 2015). By Jeanne L. Reid and Sharon Lynn Kagan (the National Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University) with Michael Hilton and Halley Potter. Excerpt: "This report calls attention to the value of socioeconomic and racial/ethnic diversity within preschool classrooms. It has taken the stance that not only … [Read more...] about A Better Start: Why Classroom Diversity Matters in Early Education (PRRAC-Century Foundation, April 2015)