Why are Schools Segregated? Evidence from the Secondary-School Match in AmsterdamAbility TrackingPolicy SimulationsSchool MatchSegregationWe use rich data from the secondary-school match in Amsterdam to nonparametrically decompose school segregation by ethnicity and by household income into five aOosterbeek,...
secondary schoolsparentsEnglandThis paper seeks an explanation for the persistent social phenomenon of segregated schooling in England whereby children from families with broadly the same characteristics of wealth, education and social networks are more likely to be educated together and therefore separate ...
but refused to support the armed struggle. “People are now planting bombs on the tramways of Algiers,” he famously told an FLN sympathizer following his acceptance of the 1957 Nobel. “My mother might be on one of those tramways. If that is justice...
I still strongly believe that women can “have it all” (and that men can too). I believe that we can “have it all at the same time.” But not today, not with the way America’s economy and society are currently structured. My experiences over the past three years have forced me ...
Further, if segregated classes improve performance of minorities, wouldn’t voluntarily segregatedschoolsdo that as well? That, of course, is the second great irony of this issue: minorities fought for years to end segregation in schools, and finally got it, both in secondary schools and colleges...
“We need to be investing in this next generation of who’s employable and what skills they need. And that’s the purpose of companies just like it is of schools.” That is, good jobs, not just profits, or even great products, are one of the key outputs of a great company...
Here are few things I really do miss, though: Diversity This is the biggest one. It does not feel great to walk down the street and see all white faces. Worse, to notice that your community is functionally segregated, with mostly white people patronizing certain institutions, and mostly ...
one black, one white—separate and unequal,” African Americans are much more likely than whites of similar incomes to live in poor neighborhoods. This is tragic, Rothstein notes, because where you live implicates so much else in life—access to good schools, transportation, employment, and weal...
. . . many evolutionary biologists are likely well-intentioned people who wouldfight against many forms of disablism: forced institutionalization, forced sterilization, nonconsensual segregated education, and offensive language. However, these same people may inadvertently be reproducing ableist h...
Mexicans in the Southwest were also frequently relegated to segregated schools and public facilities, policies which were obviously not free of ethnic or racial animus. But as sociologists Edward Telles and Vilma Ortiz point out, there was never a "Mexican counterpart to the constitutionally sanctioned...