For the research roundups, I’ve wanted to focus on particular topics so that I can look at similarities/differences across different articles. (See recent posts on charter schools and school discipline.) Along those lines, this post focuses on a major (the major?) topic in contemporary education policy – school choice. Specifically: Can school choice be used…
It’s a busy time of year, so it felt like a good time for a short post about a few great resources that I’ve come across recently. I didn’t want these to get lost in the holiday and end-of-semester shuffle. And, if you happen to have time, check out the new resources page at the…
Last week, I posted a news roundup that focused on an anti-affirmative action case at Harvard that could have very big consequences. This post is about its K-12 companion case – an anti-school integration lawsuit in Hartford that could have very big consequences. If you missed that first post, here’s the main takeaway from it:…
Last week, we published the first half of a top-12 list of resources for folks who are interested in learning more about school integration. We started with pieces that offer a broad introduction to school integration/diversity. This post presents the second half of the list – the pieces here were chosen as entry points into…
Last month, I noted that we were starting a new project at the Center for Education and Civil Rights – we wanted to compile a top-10 list of resources for folks who are relatively new to the issue of school segregation. For an issue that has been around for a long, long time, the topic…
As mentioned in yesterday’s post, it’s been a while since I’ve done a news roundup; so, there was a lot to talk about. To keep things manageable, I broke it up into three posts – the first looked at coverage of school segregation in Charlottesville and San Antonio (specifically analyze how media talks about or…
It’s been a little while since I wrote my last news roundup – I took some time off for summer, got a new job, etc, and, during that time, I was collecting stories about school diversity. There were a lot. I wrote about two big stories recently, comparing approaches to talking about race and school…
There have been two big stories published about school segregation recently. If you haven’t read them already, I highly recommend checking both out. But, then come back here! The first that I’ll talk about is the New York Times/ProPublica investigation into racial disparities in the Charlottesville, VA public schools. I’ll then compare that to the…
The SD Notebook is back! And, better than before! Since my last post, I started a new position as a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Education and Civil Rights (CECR), which is based at Penn State University and run by Erica Frankenberg. I’m thrilled about the opportunity to learn from such a respected/accomplished school…
This is a short post to announce that the School Desegregation Notebook is now the School Diversity Notebook. Because “school diversity” is a broader term that encompasses many different aspects of what is happening (and not happening) in school policy, I felt like it was a better fit. With the new name, I’ve created this…
School Diversity Notebook 