Sentences with phrase «increasing residential segregation»

This increased residential segregation was driven mostly by families with school - age children (Owens 2015), a simple reflection that quality of local schooling options is a key driver of segregation.

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U.S. Private Schools Increasingly Serve Affluent Families (Vox CEPR's Policy Portal) Richard Murnane discusses how fewer middle - class children are now enrolled in private schools and that an increase in residential segregation by income in the US means that urban public and urban private schools have less socioeconomic diversity than they had decades ago.

Furthermore, research reveals that income - based residential segregation, increasing since the 1980s, is another critical reason that schools have not been able to level the playing field for low and high income children.

Rising residential segregation by income has led to increasing concentrations of low - and high - income children attending separate schools.