Education Lukes, Dylan, and Christopher Cleveland. “The Lingering Legacy of Redlining on School Funding, Diversity, and Performances,” The Annenberg Institute at Brown University, EdWorking Paper (2021): No. 21-363. Owens, Anne, and Thalia Tom. “Intersecting Inequalities: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Differences in Math Achievement and School Context in California,” The … [Read more...] about Resources (Jan – Sept. 2022 P&R Issue)
Parents’ Conceptions of School Enrollment as Property (Jan – Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
The structure of public education in the U.S., with its unequal funding, enrollment rights tied to property, and de facto segregation has created a system where high-opportunity schools are a scarce resource to be hoarded. The resources provided to individual schools and the opportunities gained from them vary widely, making resource-rich, high-opportunity schools a … [Read more...] about Parents’ Conceptions of School Enrollment as Property (Jan – Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
School Integration in New York City: Kenneth Clark and the Allen Report (Jan-Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
Christopher Bonastia On February 3, 1964, in what arguably was the largest protest in civil rights history, nearly half a million students boycotted schools to protest segregation in the New York City school system. The book excerpt below tells the story of the unsuccessful political efforts that followed those protests. In the wake of the Board of Education’s repeated … [Read more...] about School Integration in New York City: Kenneth Clark and the Allen Report (Jan-Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
Planning for Opportunity: How Planners Can Expand Access to Affordable Opportunity Bargain Areas (Jan-Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
Nicholas Kelly and Ingrid Gould Ellen 1. Introduction The work of Raj Chetty and his co-authors shows the power of neighborhoods to shape child outcomes. Yet neighborhoods in the United States are marked by stark racial and economic disparities. There are many barriers to addressing these disparities, most notably political, but one critical issue is cost. Neighborhoods that … [Read more...] about Planning for Opportunity: How Planners Can Expand Access to Affordable Opportunity Bargain Areas (Jan-Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
“Colonized Time, Racial Time, and the Legal Time of Progress” by Rasheedah Phillips (Jan-Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
By Rasheedah Phillips The relationship between Black people, clock time, and its embodiment of Western linear time has always been contentious. Linear time, as Carol Greenhouse notes, “provides a reservoir of symbols with which the legitimacy of hierarchies can be defended and reproduced.” The entanglement of clock time and labor is pronounced in the plight of victims of … [Read more...] about “Colonized Time, Racial Time, and the Legal Time of Progress” by Rasheedah Phillips (Jan-Sept 2022 P&R Issue)
