Posts about: segregation

Students are often segregated within the same schools, not just by being sent to different ones

Students are often segregated within the same schools, not just by being sent to different ones

Children from low-income households are increasingly being segregated into different classrooms from their peers from higher-income households, according to recent research I have conducted with education policy scholar Dave E. Marcotte. From 2007 to 2014, we tracked all North Carolina public school students statewide, from third through eighth grades, observing how the students were grouped into math and English language […]…