It feels like there’s been an increase recently in the number of pieces that take a nationwide look at some aspect of school segregation. Of course, Ed Build has done several prominent national scans of school district secession and school funding inequity. Sean Reardon and colleagues just came out with an exploration of segregation and…
Part 1 of the roundup, published yesterday, looked at recent school integration debates in Austin, TX and Wake County, NC. This post summarizes similar activity in Sausalito, Oakland, nearby Baltimore, Charleston, SC and Richmond, VA. As I note in the first post, these stories give disproportionate space to pushback from angry opposition, often from white…
My last post was about the exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at the first round of Democratic primary debates earlier this summer. It’s amazing to me that this already feels so distant. Before getting to the main topic for the posts this week, here’s a quick summary of some of the major things…
School Diversity Notebook 