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Disrupting the Reciprocal Relationship Between Housing and School Segregation

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View PDF version By Philip Tegeler and Michael Hilton (2017). This paper was originally presented at A Shared Future: Fostering Communities of Inclusion in an Era of Inequality, a national symposium hosted by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies in April 2017. The symposium examined how patterns of residential segregation by income and race in the United States are … [Read more...] about Disrupting the Reciprocal Relationship Between Housing and School Segregation

Cashin: A Reply to Kahlenberg

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By Sheryll Cashin 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 anyone who cannot afford to buy or lease a home … [Read more...] about Cashin: A Reply to Kahlenberg

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein

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By Brian Knudsen When Frank Stevenson came to work in Richmond, California during World War II, he found that little appetite existed for residential racial integration. The white residents of rural Milpitas, California got wind in 1953 that the Ford Motor Company plant employing Stevenson and 250 other African Americans would be relocating to their town, and they quickly … [Read more...] about The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein

PRRAC Update (December 22, 2016): Promising end of term policy announcements

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Voluntary school integration funding:  At a school diversity event in Louisville last week, Secretary John King announced the "Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities" grant competition. Opening Doors, Expanding Opportunities offers up to $12 million for 20 districts or groups of districts for the purpose of developing plans to increase socioeconomic integration in K-12 schools. … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (December 22, 2016): Promising end of term policy announcements