P&R Article

By Chloe Latham Sikes & Terrance L. Green (click here for the PDF) Gentrification is a worldwide phenomenon that is deeply rooted in settler colonialism, anti-Black racism, and capitalism (Green, Sikes, Horne, Germain & Castro, in press). It is often characterized by the influx of new investments in residential housing, business, and commercial real estate that results … [Read more...] about “The Policy Possibilities to Confront the Racial Impacts of Gentrification” by Chloe Latham Sikes & Terrance L. Green (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)

By Tom Brown (click here for the PDF) Look for a home today on most major real estate portals, including Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, and Homesnap, and you will find the public schools assigned to each home, along with school ratings. The third-party website that provides these ratings is the non-profit organization GreatSchools.  Though GreatSchools ratings have changed … [Read more...] about “An Alternative Measure of Student Performance to Help Parents Evaluate Schools” by Tom Brown (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)

By Erika Wilson (click here for the PDF) Across the country, school district boundary lines pave the way for lawful forms of racial segregation and inequality in public schools. Indeed, most racial segregation in schools occurs between school districts rather than within school districts (EdBuild, 2019).   White student segregation is especially ubiquitous.  In many racially … [Read more...] about “Confronting ‘White Island’ School Districts” by Erika Wilson (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)

By Jack Schneider (click here for the PDF) For the past two decades, as a result of No Child Left Behind and its successor legislation, the Every Student Succeeds Act, unprecedented data have been made available to the public. These data include much that might inform interested parties about the performance of schools. Yet, at present, measurement and accountability … [Read more...] about “Ratings, Rankings, and Segregation: The Failure of Measurement and Accountability in Education” by Jack Schneider (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)

By Kara S. Finnigan & Jennifer Jellison Holme (click here for the PDF) As we argue in our book, Striving in Common:  A Regional Equity Framework for Urban Schools (Harvard Education Press, 2018), many of the inequities entrenched in the US educational system are regional in nature, rooted in historic patterns of segregation and perpetuated and deepened by competitive … [Read more...] about “Policy Change Using a Regional Equity Framework” by Kara S. Finnigan & Jennifer Jellison Holme (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)