Sentences with phrase «racial segregation also»

Since people of color are disproportionately lower income and have less «capital» (e.g., down payment for a house), racial segregation also increases.

The historical legacy of racial segregation also explains why students of color disproportionately attend economically segregated schools.

Not exact matches

It was also unambiguously pro-American, though as Alyssa Rosenberg pointed out it, had trouble incorporating the WWII - era Army's racial segregation in a satisfying way.

It was also unambiguously pro-American, though as Alyssa Rosenberg pointed out it, had trouble incorporating the WWII - era Army's racial segregation in a satisfying....

While Rosenthal has worked to create new school space in the district and carefully (too slowly, to some) move along a school district rezoning plan to address racial segregation in nearby schools, she has also used her background to hold the de Blasio administration accountable related to the budget and contracting practices through her committee work.

They also call for affirmative measures to reduce racial and socio - economic segregation, which is the most extreme in New York of any state in the nation.

Wake Up Rockland, one of McWilliams» recent projects, also received attention and provoked controversy with a silent demonstration against racial segregation at the Rockland Kosher Supermarket in Monsey.

«However, we also think that traditional measures of childhood socioeconomic status may not accurately reflect the childhood social environments of African Americans, which is quite different from that of U.S. whites because of the history of racial discrimination and segregation.

I also agree with his points about the different normative salience of economic as opposed to racial segregation, the importance of policy with respect to economic (and racial) segregation, and the growth generally (though variably) of both kinds of segregation.

Ed Next also published a timely study this fall looking at the effects of the vouchers on segregation «The Louisiana Scholarship Program: Contrary to Justice Department claims, students transfers improve racial integration»

There are also the problems that often accompany poverty that, coupled with Nashville's painful history of segregation and racial disparities in discipline practices, have perpetuated inequities among its students for decades.

In Seattle, the plaintiffs alleged that school segregation unconstitutionally reflected not only generalized societal discrimination and residential housing patterns, but also school board policies and actions that had helped to create, maintain, and aggravate racial segregation.

His research interests also include program evaluation, school finance, standards - based and accountability - based school reform, and racial segregation in schools.

North Carolina's charter sector is also contributing to the racial segregation of our school system, and creating budget pressures for traditional school systems.

Private schools generally do a better job than public schools (at lower cost, I might add), but it is rarely reported that privatization also leads to less racial segregation, not more, as the unions claim.

He also looked at eight empirical studies that have examined school choice and racial segregation in schools, and reports, ``... seven find that school choice moves students from more segregated schools into less segregated schools.

There are also concerns that charter advantages are rooted in new patterns of racial / ethnic segregation because white and minority families may choose schools with more children of the same race or ethnicity.

When Columbia was planned, it was designed to not only be better to live in than suburban developments, but also to «eliminate racial, religious, and class segregation.»

This disparity is rooted in structural, race - based disadvantages, including, according to Marshall Steinbaum's research, «segregation within higher education, which relegates minority students to the worst - performing institutions, discrimination in both credit and labor markets, and the underlying racial wealth gap that means black and Hispanic students have a much smaller cushion of family wealth to fall back on, both to finance higher education in the first place and also should any difficulty with debt repayment arise.»

It has also served as the basis for such critical Supreme Court cases like Brown v. Board of Education (barring racial segregation in education) and Loving v. Virginia (striking down laws against interracial marriage).