Have public schools in our country lived up to the promise of Brown v. Board of Education? The new initiative from the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) says no, and is aiming to change that and ...

We examine the impact of the expansion of charter schools on racial segregation in public schools, defined using multiple measures of racial sorting and isolation. Our research design utilizes between ...

SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diego officials are trying to solve the city’s housing crisis and its relative racial segregation simultaneously with new incentives that encourage more housing for low-income ...

New sociological research finds that school segregation continues to widen racial achievement gaps among Black, Hispanic, and White students in US public schools. Analyzing standardized test scores ...

Access gaps, economic adversity, school segregation lead to racial disparity in education. Access gaps, economic adversity and school segregation in Wisconsin lead to racial disparities in educational ...

Ohio’s current 607 school districts would reduce to 88 under the district-a-county option, 163 under the merger model and 156 under the blank slate scenario. The maps can be found here. As Ohio ...

Massachusetts has an extensive history of using racial covenants and exclusionary zoning policies to keep people of color out of certain communities, according to a new report released Wednesday that ...

School segregation based on race and ethnicity is alive and well in the Commonwealth. Where’s the urgency to address it? There seems to be a lot to celebrate this year in the name of racial justice in ...

Opponents of desegregation used legal maneuvers, school closures, intimidation, and violence to maintain racially segregated schools. The "Southern Manifesto," signed by many Southern members of ...

The United States is more segregated today than it was 100 years ago, according to Thomas W. Mitchell, the Robert Drinan, S.J., Professor of Law at Boston College. “I’m talking about barriers to ...