Tag: school segregation

In June 2019, an exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden during the first round of Democratic primary debates touched off renewed conversation about busing and school desegregation, and leading Democratic presidential candidates were asked about their positions on school segregation. As K-12 integration, including the past and possibly future federal role to further school

  Book details: Rothstein, R. (2017). The color of law: A forgotten history of how our government segregated America. New York: Liveright. Hardcover, 345 pages, $27.95. The version of Reconstruction Era history I recall learning in school in the northern United States went something like this: the states of the former Confederacy, sore over their

Author Update (August 12, 2021)  Since the writing of my co-authored publication, “School Choice Policies and Racial Segregation: Where White Parents’ Good Intentions, Anxiety, and Privilege Collide” (Roda & Wells, 2013), numerous other studies have documented how mostly white, advantaged parents interact with school choice policies in urban areas—portraying them as simultaneously anxious about the