The nation never truly desegregated after Brown, but now it is resegregating as fast as possible, whether Baton Rouge or California. This story is from a couple of weeks ago, but quite relevant to the
Yeah sure that’s a George Wallace quote, but when it comes to schools, it’s the feeling of perhaps a majority of white people. This is a particularly gross story from Baton Rouge, but it c
Andre Perry with a great essay on how every single education reform ignores the critical issue–segregation. “In education, America does everything but equity.” With these words, Failing Brow
Despite how we look to Brown v. Board as a critical moment in American history–which of course it is–it’s important to remember that for most American students, integrated schools ne
This is a great interview between Jeffrey Goldberg and the civil rights writer Nikole Hannah-Jones. Two critical points here. First, it’s that our school segregation is the sign of an inherently
This nation has flat out never integrated and liberal whites are as responsible for it as conservative whites. Using tract-level census data for 24 large metro areas, my co-authors and I examined whet
I know the answer to the above question will be “nothing.” People who can, largely white people, will continue to move to the suburbs or send their kids to private schools while people of
Because that’s what the government intended after World War II: “We have a national myth that the reason our metropolitan areas are segregated is for informal reasons—private prejudice, diff