By Sheryll Cashin (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Richard Kahlenberg is correct in asserting that the unfinished business of the civil rights movement is housing. His call for an Economic Fair Housing Act is useful and important. In selling this idea, however, he may create a misleading impression. Economic segregation is growing, with awful consequences for … [Read more...] about “Cashin: A Reply to Kahlenberg” by Sheryll Cashin (July-September 2017 P&R Issue)
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A Response
After reading Kahlenberg and Orfield., my reaction is: you are both right! 1-Clearly, school racial integration is being undercut by judicial decisions. The likelihood seems to be that it will largely disappear. It hasn’t worked very effectively, as shown in Gary Orfield’s data on segregation increasing in recent years. We can’t go on as before. 2-Class integration has a … [Read more...] about A Response
Response
Socio-economic integration is a good idea, but it is not the same as racial integration, may not provide some of the important advantages, does not have any enforceable basis in law, and often has been extremely controversial. It is true that students in isolated high-poverty schools and neighborhoods suffer disadvantages regardless of race, but the fact is that there are … [Read more...] about Response
