In the new Poverty & Race: Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin previews her provocative new book on college admissions, "Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America," with responses from Professors Girardeau Spann and Olati Johnson. Plus an article on HUD civil rights efforts in the Carter administration, from PRRAC Policy Counsel Megan Haberle, and … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 29, 2014): Sheryll Cashin in the new Poverty & Race
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A National Opportunity Voucher Program: A Bridge to Quality, Integrated Education for Low-Income Children (July 2009)
A new national “Opportunity Voucher” program would set aside 50,000 vouchers per year to help low-income families and children in high poverty, segregated neighborhoods move to higher opportunity communities with low poverty, high performing schools. This program builds on the success of the famous “Gautreaux” housing mobility program in Chicago, and would be administered by … [Read more...] about A National Opportunity Voucher Program: A Bridge to Quality, Integrated Education for Low-Income Children (July 2009)
“An Important Step” by William L. Taylor (March-April 2008 P&R Issue)
By William L. Taylor (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Out of the promising ferment about national policy emerging from the current presidential campaign, there may come a couple of ideas that will be useful in advancing the goal of a diverse and racially inclusive society. One such is the Chambers/Boger/Tobin proposal to make attendance at diverse high schools a … [Read more...] about “An Important Step” by William L. Taylor (March-April 2008 P&R Issue)
A Forum on Housing Mobility and Education: Improving the Transition to New Communities and Schools
December 3, 2007 ~ 10:00 to 4:00 ~ Baltimore, MD At the Annie E. Casey Foundation, 701 St. Paul Street Overview The forum on “Housing Mobility and Education: Improving the Transition to New Communities and Schools” was held in concert with an innovative regional housing mobility program in Baltimore that is dedicated to helping low income families voluntarily make the … [Read more...] about A Forum on Housing Mobility and Education: Improving the Transition to New Communities and Schools
“Schools Count” by Dianne M. Piché and Tamar Ruth (September-Ocober P&R Issue)
By Dianne M. Piché and Tamar Ruth (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In Class and Schools, Richard Rothstein suggests that school reform will not produce results unless and until the entire liberal social and economic agenda is fully enacted. He has summarized a one-sided collection of unsurprising and not very new studies about the impact of poverty, … [Read more...] about “Schools Count” by Dianne M. Piché and Tamar Ruth (September-Ocober P&R Issue)
