In the new Poverty & Race: Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin previews her provocative new book on college admissions, "Place Not Race: A New Vision of Opportunity in America," with responses from Professors Girardeau Spann and Olati Johnson. Plus an article on HUD civil rights efforts in the Carter administration, from PRRAC Policy Counsel Megan Haberle, and … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 29, 2014): Sheryll Cashin in the new Poverty & Race
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PRRAC Update (May 15, 2014): 60 years after Brown, in Hartford and New Haven, CT
Twenty five years of school integration progress in Connecticut: Congratulations to our friends and colleagues in Hartford for their recent celebration of the 25th anniversary of the filing of the Sheff v. O'Neill case, a landmark state constitutional decision in 1996 that has led to development of a successful two-way school integration program in Hartford and surrounding … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 15, 2014): 60 years after Brown, in Hartford and New Haven, CT
PRRAC Update (May 2, 2014): Housingmobility.org
Growing the field of housing mobility: We are pleased to announce the launch of a new collaborative website, www.housingmobility.org, which includes video, audio and photos of families participating in regional housing mobility programs from across the country and a resource library with the latest social science research, legal advocacy, best practices, and policy analysis in … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (May 2, 2014): Housingmobility.org
PRRAC Update (February 13, 2014): Protecting vulnerable children
Housing mobility and child health: We participated in a powerful Aspen Institute Roundtable in Baltimore last week titled "After Thompson: Getting Kids Out of Harm's Way - Implications for the Well-Being of Children," which focused on recent research on the developmental impacts of "toxic stress" and trauma on young children living in distressed communities - and the important … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (February 13, 2014): Protecting vulnerable children
PRRAC Update (April 18, 2013): New housing mobility research from Dallas; increasing school segregation in Maryland
New research on housing mobility: The Inclusive Communities Project (ICP) in Dallas has contributed to the expanding research on effective housing mobility strategies with an innovative new report that looks at neighborhood outcomes for low income families with housing choice vouchers, based on the degree of housing mobility assistance received. The report assesses … [Read more...] about PRRAC Update (April 18, 2013): New housing mobility research from Dallas; increasing school segregation in Maryland
