race
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Reparations Is the Only Choice
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To address racial disparities faced by Black Americans, policymakers must prioritize a Black agenda highlighted by a federal reparations policy. For many scholars, reparations—as a policy—represent an initial attempt to acknowledge, redress, and provide finality of judgement for the financial hardships caused by slavery and Jim Crow. In “Resurrecting the…
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Culture, Virtue, and Education: How Perceptions of Learning Affect Success
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Researchers have long sought to explain what conditions may contribute to a student’s academic success. East Asian students have been some of the more demonstrably successful in the United States, leaving experts to grapple with what may be causing these better outcomes, as proper analysis of such a learning model…
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Education Migration: Why Teachers Are Leaving the Profession
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Teacher shortages are a harsh reality in states across the nation. From California to South Carolina, recruiting and retaining teachers is an imminent concern for school districts, parents, and students. These problems are often more pronounced in high poverty, racially segregated (HPRS) schools. In 2000, annual turnover rates for all…
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Good Neighbors: Addressing Race in Public Housing Integration
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New research shows that perceived racial conflict is hindering the ability of black, public housing residents to integrate into predominantly white neighborhoods, an issue that the City of Chicago is doing nothing to address.
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Congress Derailed: Fear and the American Dream, Redux
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Field research demonstrates that immigration reform might rely less on racial conservatism and more on nature, neighborhoods, and the melting pot.
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What’s Race Got to Do With It? The Relationship Between Race and Health Outcomes in Segregated Neighborhoods
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New research finds that race and ethnicity are important mechanisms through which neighborhood segregation affects self-rated health.
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Discipline and Punishment: How School Suspensions Impact the Likelihood of Juvenile Arrest
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A new study links students’ suspension or expulsion from school to a more than doubled likelihood of arrest.
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Is America Perpetuating Inequality by Increasing the Number of Schools Teaching STEM?
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STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) jobs are in high demand, but STEM educational programs may not reach all American students equally.
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The GED Is Changing: Evidence Suggests GED Prep Courses Should Change Too
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Improved GED prep programs could significantly increase passage rates and college enrollment, suggests a timely and encouraging study from MDRC.
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Drugs, Racial Bias, and Academic Discord
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Academics disagree on the existence of racial bias in policing drug crimes
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The Unlocked Door of the Foreclosure Crisis
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New research takes a second look at the substantial racial gap in the foreclosure crisis