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Esquire, December, 04, 2017 Very often, people who express doubts about the value of public charter schools are criticized for being unsympathetic to minority and poor students that these schools allegedly are designed to help. (That the charter movement is awash in fraud and...

Diverse Issues in Higher Education, October 18, 2017 Can socioeconomic status (SES) desegregation policies combat rising school segregation across the United States? A new policy briefing from the National Coalition on School Diversity suggests that schools will see better results...

Northern Public Radio, September 22, 2017 Erica Frankenberg, an Associate Professor of Education and Democracy and the Director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Pennsylvania State University, says integrated schools help diminish the formation of prejudice and...

The New York Times Magazine, September 6, 2017 When a new succession of heavily white towns sought to break off from Jefferson County, beginning in the late 1980s, they went unchallenged, even though each secession siphoned large numbers of white students from the district, which...

The Hechniger Report, August 24, 2017 The Southern Poverty Law Center called the Charlottesville rally “the largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States.” Protester Heather Heyer, was killed at the rally, others were hurt badly and two state troopers died in...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, July 13, 2017 The resegregation of public schools in the South troubles academics, civil rights activists and researchers. It’s been on the agenda of every major education conference or seminar I’ve attended in the last three years. However, it...

Newsweek, June 21, 2017 It is no secret that the promise of the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education has never been fully fulfilled. Though that ruling struck down the doctrine of separate-but-equal schooling, it did not provide concrete means to enforce...