Sign up for PRRAC’s biweekly newsletter here. Excerpted from Poverty & Race, Volume 31, No.2 (Oct-Dec 2022) john powell and Eloy Toppin This August, 2022, Raj Chetty and his team of researchers published exciting and promising new findings in the field of social capital and network ties. Specifically, Chetty et al. have demonstrated, through an extensive analysis … [Read more...] about Social Capital and Economic Connectedness (Oct – Dec 2022 P&R Issue)
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Reflections on social capital, integration, and upward mobility (Oct-Dec 2022 P& R Issue)
Link to the full issue. Introduction This past August, economist Raj Chetty and colleagues published two new papers in Nature, based on a massive dataset and accompanied by detailed maps on Opportunity Insights’ new Social Capital Atlas, that continue to build the economic case for integration – bringing children together within communities, schools, and institutions, and … [Read more...] about Reflections on social capital, integration, and upward mobility (Oct-Dec 2022 P& R Issue)
Resources (Jan – Sept. 2022 P&R Issue)
Education Lukes, Dylan, and Christopher Cleveland. “The Lingering Legacy of Redlining on School Funding, Diversity, and Performances,” The Annenberg Institute at Brown University, EdWorking Paper (2021): No. 21-363. Owens, Anne, and Thalia Tom. “Intersecting Inequalities: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Differences in Math Achievement and School Context in California,” The … [Read more...] about Resources (Jan – Sept. 2022 P&R Issue)
Parents’ Conceptions of School Enrollment as Property (Jan – Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
The structure of public education in the U.S., with its unequal funding, enrollment rights tied to property, and de facto segregation has created a system where high-opportunity schools are a scarce resource to be hoarded. The resources provided to individual schools and the opportunities gained from them vary widely, making resource-rich, high-opportunity schools a … [Read more...] about Parents’ Conceptions of School Enrollment as Property (Jan – Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
School Integration in New York City: Kenneth Clark and the Allen Report (Jan-Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
Christopher Bonastia On February 3, 1964, in what arguably was the largest protest in civil rights history, nearly half a million students boycotted schools to protest segregation in the New York City school system. The book excerpt below tells the story of the unsuccessful political efforts that followed those protests. In the wake of the Board of Education’s repeated … [Read more...] about School Integration in New York City: Kenneth Clark and the Allen Report (Jan-Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
