by Daniel J. Losen (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In 1999, Christopher Edley, Co-Director of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP), following Jesse Jackson’s bold defense of suspended students in Decatur, Illinois, told his staff that he had scheduled a meeting with Education Secretary Richard Riley and requested CRP to create a briefing … [Read more...] about “Re-Directing the School to Prison Pipeline” by Daniel J. Losen (July-August 2005 P&R Issue)
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“Socioeconomic School Integration” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)
By Richard D. Kahlenberg (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Today, most of the education reform world, liberal and conservative, accepts as a given that American children will attend schools that are largely segregated by class and race. There is a strong policy consensus that concentrations of poverty, whether in public housing or in public schools, reduce life … [Read more...] about “Socioeconomic School Integration” by Richard D. Kahlenberg (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)
“Keeping the Dream” by William L. Taylor (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
By William L. Taylor (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Leonard Steinhorn and Barbara Diggs-Brown have made an important contribution with their trenchant analysis of where matters now stand in the long struggle for equality and racial integration. Sadly, race remains a seemingly intractable problem, an (perhaps the) American dilemma. W.E.B. DuBois’ observation … [Read more...] about “Keeping the Dream” by William L. Taylor (January-February 2000 P&R Issue)
“The Streets, the Courts, the Legislature and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen” by Rachel Godsil (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
By Rachel Godsil (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) In November 1995, the East New York Community Committee Against the Incinerator celebrated a victory: the Committee had just defeated a wood-waste incinerator slated for a permit in the primarily African-American and Latino community of Brooklyn's East New York area. A few months later, another Brooklyn … [Read more...] about “The Streets, the Courts, the Legislature and the Press: Where Environmental Struggles Happen” by Rachel Godsil (May-June 1996 P&R Issue)
Is Racism Permanent? (November-December 1993 P&R Issue)
In his 1992 book Faces at the Bottom of the Well, Derrick Bell posited a provocative thesis: Black people will never gain full equality in this country. Even those Herculean efforts we hail as successful will produce no more than temporary `peaks of progress, short-lived victories that slide into irrelevance as racial patterns adapt in ways that maintain white dominance. … [Read more...] about Is Racism Permanent? (November-December 1993 P&R Issue)
