Housing-Schools Nexus Articles (via Poverty & Race)

(Click here for the PDF) Epic Theatre Ensemble’s mission is to create bold work with and for diverse communities that promotes vital discourse and social change by 1) inspiring NYC students to be creative and engaged citizens; 2) presenting compelling topics that transform the way people think; and 3) collaborating with artists, students, and community leaders to produce plays … [Read more...] about “Q&A: Epic Theatre Ensemble’s Between the Lines Explores Housing and School Segregation” (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)

By Chloe Latham Sikes & Terrance L. Green (click here for the PDF) Gentrification is a worldwide phenomenon that is deeply rooted in settler colonialism, anti-Black racism, and capitalism (Green, Sikes, Horne, Germain & Castro, in press). It is often characterized by the influx of new investments in residential housing, business, and commercial real estate that results … [Read more...] about “The Policy Possibilities to Confront the Racial Impacts of Gentrification” by Chloe Latham Sikes & Terrance L. Green (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)

By Tom Brown (click here for the PDF) Look for a home today on most major real estate portals, including Zillow, Redfin, Realtor.com, and Homesnap, and you will find the public schools assigned to each home, along with school ratings. The third-party website that provides these ratings is the non-profit organization GreatSchools.  Though GreatSchools ratings have changed … [Read more...] about “An Alternative Measure of Student Performance to Help Parents Evaluate Schools” by Tom Brown (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)

By Erika Wilson (click here for the PDF) Across the country, school district boundary lines pave the way for lawful forms of racial segregation and inequality in public schools. Indeed, most racial segregation in schools occurs between school districts rather than within school districts (EdBuild, 2019).   White student segregation is especially ubiquitous.  In many racially … [Read more...] about “Confronting ‘White Island’ School Districts” by Erika Wilson (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)

By Jack Schneider (click here for the PDF) For the past two decades, as a result of No Child Left Behind and its successor legislation, the Every Student Succeeds Act, unprecedented data have been made available to the public. These data include much that might inform interested parties about the performance of schools. Yet, at present, measurement and accountability … [Read more...] about “Ratings, Rankings, and Segregation: The Failure of Measurement and Accountability in Education” by Jack Schneider (Oct – Dec 2021 P&R Issue)