Not exact matches
Residential segregation by race, age or social or economic class would no longer be a major problem,
for the whole city would be a single unit.
Even controlling
for rates of arrest, the researchers found a strong association between the racial disparity in unarmed fatal police shootings and a range of structural racism indicators, with
residential segregation showing the most pronounced association.
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.
For example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any school in a large urban district — and uses a fair method for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years a
For example, a simple, streamlined process that allows families to choose any school in a large urban district — and uses a fair method
for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between residential and school segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated segregation more than 50 years a
for allocating spaces at oversubscribed schools — could be a way to weaken the link between
residential and school
segregation that has plagued our school system since the end of legally mandated
segregation more than 50 years ago.
For example, it takes into account any unmeasured factors, such as the degree of
residential segregation, to the extent that those factors remain constant over time.
The New Normal
for Federal Education Spending (3/4/10) Choice and
Residential Segregation (2/23/10) Studies Find No Effects (1/7/10) Focus of School Reform Shifting to Teachers (12/17/09) Are Middle Schools or Middle Schoolers the Problem?
Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools:
Residential Segregation and the Search
for a Good School.
The change in the
Residential Income
Segregation Index (RISI) is in the double digits
for many of our most populated urban areas:
As a result of the Milliken decision and
residential segregation, poor, minority students would stay in the cities, and the suburbs would be spared from busing
for desegregation.
This, combined with the fact that there is a directly negative relationship between
residential mobility and student academic performance, particularly
for students in low - income or single - parent families (Scanlon and Devine), shows how mobility patterns based on a long history of housing
segregation can have direct impacts on individual students before they even affect institutional matters like funding.
Forthcoming in the June print issue of the American Sociological Review and recently published online, the paper, «Neighborhood Foreclosures, Racial / Ethnic Transitions, and
Residential Segregation,» noted that the crisis spurred one of the largest migrations in U.S. history, changes that could alter the complexion of American cities
for a generation or more.