New research published last week looks at the effect of charter school choice on racial segregation in Pennsylvania. Although the findings are not particularly encouraging, the research adds valuable new information to our understanding of charter school segregation. The article (free, full text) was published in education policy analysis archives, an open-access online journal that…
In what has become an early theme of the DeVos’ DOE and its supporters, last week our new Secretary of Education made a comment that was as shockingly racist as it was mind boggling. It’s been covered extensively and dissected thoughtfully, so I did not want to rehash that here. But, what I did want…
This week, there was a great story about housing segregation and another new report on the connection between charters and school segregation. The key argument of “Segregation had to be invented,” is exactly that. The article traces the history of segregation in Charlotte, NC, though its historical background is relevant for much of the South.…
This week’s news roundup features an opinion piece from the New York Times and a new report from the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity (IMO) at the University of Minnesota. IMO was founded by Myron Orfield, an influential social demographic researcher and brother of Gary Orfield, himself an influential school desegregation researcher who leads the Civil…
It was a mixed bag of articles this week, though one theme remains common: that popular policies have largely been ineffective in improving student learning and, meanwhile, have exacerbated (or ignored) school segregation. This Atlantic article looks at a recent report that went overlooked among everything else that’s happened so far this year. Released just…
Last week, I posted short summaries and links to news articles about the Betsy DeVos hearing. Ahead of the committee vote this Tuesday, I wanted to look at one major theme that runs across all the articles: long used as resistance to school integration, vouchers and other school choice policies have been linked to greater…
There was a lot of great attention to school segregation this week. I’ve organized the best I could find into three categories. Nikole Hannah-Jones on Fresh Air NPR Summary with a link to the full interview Summary from Non-Profit Quarterly, with a different emphasis than the NPR summary and more links to related resources The…
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