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…
This post is about a great piece of recent research on school resegregation. I want to talk about the content of the article itself as well as the value, more generally, of research that relies on interviews and media analysis to understand the current moment that we’re experiencing with race and schooling. I think this…
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…
This roundup covers the most relevant/useful stuff that I could find from the first half of April. There was a lot of media coverage of school segregation as well as several new studies of housing segregation. I’ve mainly just tried to organize the links here. Will do longer summaries in subsequent posts. To the links!…
There’s been a lot of (de)segregation news/media coverage in the last few weeks. This post briefly summarizes and links to the best stories I could find. A few of these – especially the Century Foundation report and the Baltimore Sun series – will be topics for discussion in subsequent posts. Close readers of the blog…
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…
Just over a week ago, Betsy DeVos was confirmed as Secretary of Education and Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. For advocates of school desegregation, it’s hard to imagine a worse scenario. In light of all this, I wanted to revisit the GAO report on school segregation mentioned in my first post. As noted there, the…
School Diversity Notebook 