A few weeks before Minneapolis police killed George Floyd, the National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD) published a list of model state school integration policies. It was important then, but it takes on added significance in light of the protests that have followed Floyd’s murder, the heightened attention to racial justice and segregation, and repeated…
I’m excited to feature a new collaborating author on the SD Notebook – Jeremy Anderson is a Ph.D. candidate at Penn State and a colleague on the voluntary integration research team led by Erica Frankenberg. Racial disparity in school discipline is a national problem that is especially troubling when it comes to exclusionary school discipline…
I want to start with an aspect of school segregation history that is important but may not be well known. Starting in the 1970-71 school year, Longview, TX was under a court desegregation order that included busing more than 600 Black students to formerly all white schools. During the summer before busing was to begin,…
This week, two major reports came out, each of which address what is perhaps the most important question facing contemporary school segregation: what can we do to fix it? I’m talking specifically about: A new report called Making the grade: the path to real integration and equity for NYC public school students from a School…
Last week, I wrote about recent research on racial disparities in school discipline. In a continuation of that post, I wanted to write about how themes from the research affect real students/families in very real ways as seen in a few recent stories. It’s frankly hard to know how to set these up. As mentioned…
There’s been a few major stories related to school diversity recently, and this post is a quick (and small) collection of some of the best coverage/resources I’ve come across. Since readers are likely quite familiar with each of these, I’m keeping my summaries extremely short. I mainly just want to put these out there, in…
I normally include resources and events/opportunities as part of the news roundup posts, but I’ve come across so much great stuff lately that I thought it makes sense to highlight these in a standalone post. As always, I hope you find something useful. And, feel free to use comments to let me know if I…
New to the SD notebook in 2018, I am planning to do research roundups every month or so. This is the first one of 2018, and it includes two reports that take very different ways of looking at the relationship between money/funding and school segregation. The first report is from the Sillerman Center at Brandeis…
Last month, something happened at the federal Department of Ed, and I wanted to give it some attention here because it is not good. First a little background – You may know or remember from an earlier post that Candice Jackson is currently the head of the DOE’s Office of Civil Rights, despite having no…
A judge that allows segregation? White liberals choosing against integration? Segregation orders from a school principal? It’s all in the late April news roundup. Here’s the links and summaries to the best/most relevant I could find: Legal Segregation in Jefferson County, Alabama As noted in an earlier post, “splintering” is a popular current vehicle for…
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