Since the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, researchers and
policy makers have paid close attention to trends in school segregation. Here we review the …

Debates over the development and density of housing have gained visibility in recent years
as housing costs have skyrocketed in many metropolitan areas. With those who seek to limit …

Segregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data
from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments generate race and …

The authors estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas
and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 …

Although it is clear that racial segregation is linked to academic achievement gaps, the
mechanisms underlying this link have been debated since James Coleman published his …

In this paper we derive and evaluate measures of multigroup segregation. After describing
four ways to conceptualize the measurement of multigroup segregation—as the …

This study examines the characteristics and determinants of English learners'(ELs') access
to academic content in middle school (Grades 6–8). Following 10 years of data from a large …

The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided
Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual …

Increasing constraints placed on race-based school diversification have shifted attention to
socioeconomic desegregation. Although past research suggests that socioeconomic …

Today's typical minority student attends school with fewer whites than his counterpart in
1970. This apparent resegregation of US schools has sparked outrage and debate. Some …