Word: segregationism
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One recent paper by the prolific professor attacks the theory that rent control reduces racial segregation.
Glaeser’s “important work on the relationship between segregation and opportunity may help cross the lines between, economics, policy and urban structures,” said Professor Education and Social Policy Gary A. Orfield, who is co-director of the Harvard Civil Rights Project.
Beyond segregation, blacks continue to lag behind educationally. More than 70% of white students graduate from high school on time; just over half of black and Hispanic students do. Blacks make up 8.5% of all students in U.S. graduate programs, well short of their percentage of the young adult population...
But, Carter argues, the biggest reason Brown hasn't been a complete success lies in the Supreme Court. When the 1954 Brown decision came down, the Court did not specify a remedy for school segregation. A year later it issued Brown v. Board of Education II, which said that the...
It is ironic that, in this fiftieth year since Brown, that de jure black-white segregation has morphed into de facto black-white-Hispanic segregation today. With it have come some of the same problems that existed during the Jim Crow era—functional illiteracy, diminished motivation and under...