Complete P&R Issues Archives
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Link to the full January-April 2025 issue.
Introduction – Transportation Equity
– Ariel Bierbaum, guest editor
Dividing Lines and the Infrastructure of Racial Inequality
Deborah N. Archer
The Freeway Revolts – then and now
Karilyn Crockett
Welcome to PRRAC’s new Executive Director!
Using Title VI to challenge discriminatory transportation investments: Looking back and looking forward
Aaron Golub, Alex Karner, Gabriel Quiñones-Zambrana
Transportation Equity: A Serious Turn in the Federal Road as Trump Administration Takes Aim at Reversing Years of Progress
Mariia V. Zimmerman
Making Transit Investment Work for Communities in Maryland
Sheila Somashekhar, Kathryn Howell, and Gerrit-Jan Knaap
The Remnant
Kwame Dawes
Link to the full September-December 2024 issue.
The Upcoming legal resistance to Project 2025 and the second Trump Administration
Jon Greenbaum
A battle for the soul of Title VI in Cancer Alley
Amy Laura Cahn
Voices of Resistance: Miguel Acosta
Amy Laura Cahn
Link to the full May-August 2024 issue.
Title VI Turns 60: Is it Too Late to Awaken the Sleeping Giant?
Johnathan Smith
Negating Objections to Housing Decommodification through Strategic Tenant Movement Support for Comprehensive Economic and Social Rights
Thomas Silverstein
Rosenwald Fellows and the Journey to Brown v. Board of Education
Stephanie Deutsch
Life in Grants Pass
John Square III and Helen Cruz
Link to full January-April 2024 issue
Brown at 70 and Milliken at 50
Introduction
As we approach the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education and 50th anniversary of Milliken v. Bradley, what progress has been made, where have we fallen short or gotten stuck, and what is required to truly fulfill the promise of integration and educational equity? This P&R special issue brings together a variety of perspectives—lawyers, researchers, advocates, educators, parents, and students—to reflect on both the fulfilled and unfulfilled promise of Brown and offer ideas to help chart a path forward for making truly equitable and integrated schools a reality. Each piece explores a little-known or underemphasized aspect of Brown or Milliken, ultimately providing insights and guidance about how to strengthen the modern movement for school integration.
For All of Our Children: Justice Thurgood Marshall’s Faith in Integration Is Still Right
Rachel D. Godsil, Linda R. Tropp, and Kim Forde-Mazrui
Brown v. Board of Education: The Soul of Our Multiracial Democracy
Jin Hee Lee, Sarah Seo, and Hamida Labi
Reclaiming Brown’s Remedial Principle
Olatunde Johnson
How Brown v. Board of Education Affected Black Teachers: A New Perspective
Zoë Burkholder
Censored, Erased, and Whitewashed: Jim Crow Education in the Twenty-First Century
Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
The Southern Education Foundation’s Legacy with Brown v. Board of Education
Raymond C. Pierce
The Future of Brown is Multiracial
Alejandra T. Vázquez Baur
Bridging Generations: Reflections on Intergenerational Movement-Building and Youth Organizing in New York City
Matt Gonzales and Aneth Naranjo
The Problem We All Still Live With
Andrew Lefkowits and Val Brown
The Power of Three-Dimensional Synergy: School Finance Reform, Quality Pre-K, and School Integration
Rucker Johnson
Link to full August-December 2023 issue
August-December 2023 Issue Articles
The arc of opportunity: a decade of research on housing, neighborhoods, and social mobility
— Raj Chetty (Keynote address at the 9th National Housing Mobility Conference. September 20, 2023)
The Role of the Federal Government in Promoting Cross-Sector Regional Collaboration
—Elizabeth H. DeBray, Philip Tegeler, Ariel H. Bierbaum, & Andrew J. Greenlee
Recalibrating a (new) Sociology of Housing
—Gregory Preston
—Alliance for Housing Justice
Link to full April-July 2023 issue
The Interconnection Between School Finance and Segregation
Introduction
Nearly 70 years ago, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education framed racial segregation as the cause of educational inequality. But Brown and its progeny never seriously examined the ways in which inadequate school funding is intertwined with race and segregation—and places students of color in a double bind. The country has consistently slipped backward on school segregation for the last several decades and never really got started on related problems of how we fund schools. The authors in this issue highlight these interconnections, examine their effects on equal educational opportunities, and chart a path for addressing segregation and school funding in tandem.
—Derek Black, Guest Editor
April-July 2023 Issue Articles
School Finance as Racial Subordination
The Lynchpin of Educational Inequality—And the Myth Behind It
K-12 Schools Remain Free to Pursue Diversity Through Race-Neutral Programs
Understanding the First, Second, and Third Order Effects on Disparities in K-12 Funding and Outcomes
Separate and Unequal: The Need for a Nuanced Accounting of the Inequities Created by Segregation
Resource Equity, Desegregation, and Fulfilling the Promise of Brown
Equitable and Diverse: Schools for the 21st Century
Unintended Consequences of School Finance Reform? An Initial Exploration.
Past, Present, and Future: Making and Unmaking the School-Prison Nexus
Chester Hartman – In Memoriam (1936-2023) Tribute
Link to full Jan-March 2023 issue
Racial capitalism, tenant power, and social housing
Racial capitalism. Social housing. These terms are widely used, but thinly understood. They are easily abstracted and readily made fodder for theoretical discussion detached from lived realities. This issue brings together organizers and academics to consider the relevance and meaning of racial capitalism and social housing from a perspective grounded in struggle, experience, and attentiveness to the dynamics of the U.S. political economy. The authors offer insights on the material stakes of racial capitalism, the reasons it necessitates building movements for tenant power, and the policy pathways that impede or facilitate efforts to treat housing as a social good rather than a profit generating commodity. — Jamila Michener, guest editor
Recent P&R Issues and Article Links
Link to full October-December 2022 issue
Reflections on social capital, integration, and upward mobility
Introduction
This past August, economist Raj Chetty and colleagues published two new papers in Nature, based on a massive dataset and accompanied by detailed maps on Opportunity Insights’ new Social Capital Atlas, that continue to build the economic case for integration – bringing children together within communities, schools, and institutions, and across class differences. Using Facebook data linked to IRS and other datasets, the study made an empirical comparison of three classic forms of social capital and found that “connectedness between different types of people, such as those with low vs. high socioeconomic status” was the strongest predictor of upward economic mobility for low income children – and that these positive impacts were further enhanced by the degree to which children were living and going to school in places where “friending bias” (the tendency to be connected to people in your own SES group) was lowest. Policymakers and advocates were already indebted to Professor Chetty and his co-authors for their 2015 finding that children who move from high poverty to low poverty neighborhoods when they are young have dramatically improved outcomes as adults, and this new research has brought us closer to understanding the mechanisms that drive these outcomes. As the following essays illustrate, Chetty’s findings have crucial lessons for federal housing programs, land use, housing mobility, and school integration.
October-December 2022 Issue Articles
The Chetty Team’s Social Capital Findings: A Timely Boost for Mixed-Income Development
Examining Economic Connectedness Through the Lens of Intergroup Contact Theory and Research
How Social Capital Research Can Help Redress Segregation
Post-Move Supports Can Increase the Likelihood of Long-Term Benefits from Housing Mobility Programs
Accountability Systems and the Persistence of School Segregation
January-September 2022 Issue Articles
October-December 2021 Issue Articles: I. Policy Windows and Policy Strategies
Connecting Housing and School Integration Research, Practice, and Policy
The Bridges Collaborative: Centering Practitioners in the Fight for Integration
School Desegregation, School Rezoning, and Growth Management in Two Maryland Counties
Sharing the Wealth: How Regional Finance and Desegregation Plans Can Enhance School Desegregation and Promote Educational Equity
Tackling School and Housing Segregation Through Revisions to AFFH
New Urban Institute Report and Data Tool Highlight Racially Unequal School Boundaries Across the US
Connecting Housing and School Integration – Federal and State Policy Levers
October-December 2021 Issue Articles: II. Evaluating the Past and Moving Forward with a Focus on Equity and Racial Justice
Using Research Evidence to Address Segregation: A Racial Equity Perspective
Policy Change Using a Regional Equity Framework
Ratings, Rankings, and Segregation: The Failure of Measurement and Accountability in Education
Confronting “White Island” School Districts
An Alternative Measure of Student Performance to Help Parents Evaluate Schools
The Policy Possibilities to Confront the Racial Impacts of Gentrification
October-December 2021 Issue Articles: III. How the Next Generation is Tackling the Impact of Segregation in their Community
Link to full May-September 2021 issue
May-September 2021 Issue Articles
January-April 2021 Issue Articles
Land Values and the Enduring Significance of Racial Residential Segregation
The Making of Boston’s AFFH Ordinance – A Brief Oral History
The American Right to Education: The Northwest Ordinance, Reconstruction, and the Current Challenge
Gentrification, Demographic Change, and the Challenges of Integration
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