By Carol Corbett Burris, Kevin Welner and Jennifer Weiser Bezoza (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) This is a summary of a 46-page, Dec. 2009 Legislative Policy Brief. Ronnie and Tyrone are both former students at South Side High School in Long Island, New York. They both were raised in public housing, they are both African-American, and they both entered high … [Read more...] about “Universal Access to Quality Education: Research and Recommendations for the Elimination of Curricular Stratification” by Carol Corbett Burris, Kevin Welner and Junnifer Weiser Bezoza (January-February 2010 P&R Issue)
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PRRAC strongly supports federal, state and local efforts to increase racial and economic integration in K-12 education. We do this work primarily with and through the National Coalition on School Diversity (NCSD), which we helped to found in 2009 along with former staff from the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute at Harvard Law School, and leadership of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the ACLU. Members of the NCSD Steering Committee include the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, PRRAC, ACLU, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, MALDEF, AALDEF, Kirwan Institute, NY Appleseed, UNC Center for Civil Rights, and the UCLA Civil Rights Project, along with a small group of prominent legal scholars. Since 2009, PRRAC has served as the primary staff and fiscal agent for the NCSD, with active support from many of the NCSD member organizations for specific advocacy campaigns, and volunteer contributions by members of the NCSD Research Advisory Panel.
For more on PRRAC’s work on education and school diversity, visit our page on the Housing-School Nexus.
“The Social Science Evidence on the Effects of Diversity in K-12 Schools” by Roslyn Arlin Michelson (September-October 2007 P&R Issue)
By Roslyn Arlin Mickelson (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Racial segregation of students in public schools is increasing. Ironically, schools are resegregating just as the responsibility to provide high-quality, equitable education to all children is becoming more complicated because of the ongoing demographic transformation of our society. Findings … [Read more...] about “The Social Science Evidence on the Effects of Diversity in K-12 Schools” by Roslyn Arlin Michelson (September-October 2007 P&R Issue)
“Social Class, But What About the Schools?” by Pedro A. Noguera (September-October 2004 P&R Issue)
By Pedro A. Noguera (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) Long before publication of Social Class and Schools, I was a fan of Richard Rothstein’s work. As a New York Times columnist for several years, Rothstein’s commentaries on education were distinguished by his ability to bring common-sense insights to complex policy issues. In a field where policy … [Read more...] about “Social Class, But What About the Schools?” by Pedro A. Noguera (September-October 2004 P&R Issue)
High Classroom Turnover: How Children Get Left Behind (May/June 2002 P&R Issue)
By Chester Hartman and Alison Leff (May/June 2002 P&R Issue) A 1994 U.S. General Accounting Office study reported that by the end of the third grade, one out of six children had attended three or more schools, and that students often changed schools more than once during the school year. For many schools, over a four- year time period, overall school stability can fall … [Read more...] about High Classroom Turnover: How Children Get Left Behind (May/June 2002 P&R Issue)
“Making the Grade: Exposing Structural Racism in Our Schools” by Tammy Johnson and Terry Keleher (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)
By Tammy Johnson & Terry Keleher (Click here to view the entire P&R issue) “…it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education.”----- Brown v. Board of Education (1954) Nearly a half century has elapsed since the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation, yet students of color … [Read more...] about “Making the Grade: Exposing Structural Racism in Our Schools” by Tammy Johnson and Terry Keleher (September-October 2001 P&R Issue)
