(Re)segregation, privatization

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• A new book explores the history of school and residential segregation
  WUNC Due South, August 6, 2025. Host: Leoneda Inge.
  Residential and school segregation are closely linked. It began with the founding of the Federal Housing Administration, ongoing efforts by housing developers and well-meaning parents hoping to provide the best possible education for their small children.
  Guest: Karen Benjamin, associate professor of history at Elmhurst University and author of Good Parents, Betters Homes & Great Schools: Selling Segregation Before the New Deal
• *The Persistence Of Segregated Schools
  WAMU 1A, Nov. 29, 2018. Host Joshua Johnson speaks with MacArthur "Genius" Award winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, who reports that “schools with large numbers of black and Latino kids are less likely to have experienced teachers, advanced courses, instructional materials and adequate facilities", and University of Chicago assistant professor and sociologist Eve Ewing. A companion story about the Longview school district in Texas is at https://the1a.org/shows/2018-11-29/school-segregation-texas-tribune
• Color of Education
  Color of Education is a partnership between the Public School Forum of North Carolina, The Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity, and Policy Bridge at Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy. Color of Education seeks to build bridges across the fields of research, policy, and practice and bring together the knowledge and perspectives of communities, educators, policymakers, experts and other key stakeholders focused on achieving racial equity and dismantling systemic racism in education across the state of North Carolina. (Archived page courtesy of the Internet Archive. A current related webpage is https://childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/blog/event/color-of-education/
• Facing South, from the Institute for Southern Studies
  Has many articles on social justice, segregation, and more, e.g., Pro-privatization money behind bills to boost N.C. charter schools; Analysis reveals urban-rural divide in poverty in Southern schools; U.S. foreclosure crisis worsened racial segregation; The most racially segregated cities in the South. Examples follow.
• Facing South - 2011 - A big loss for Art Pope in NC school resegregation fight
• Facing South - 2014 - Institute Index: As diversity in schools increases, so does segregation
  By Allie Yee on August 29, 2014 3:42 PM
• Facing South - 2015 - Deep-pocketed network pushes to expand vouchers in North Carolina
  By Alex Kotch on April 16, 2015
• Facing South - In desegregation case, judge blasts school officials and Justice Department
  By Nikole Hannah-Jones, ProPublica, July 15, 2014 2:36 PM
• From viruses to violence - rethinking public health strategies in response to political culture
  Christian H. Bijoux and Andrea Nguyen. Graphics: Lindsey Clark. Editor: Elaine Kordis. 2016
• Have We Lost Sight of the Promise of Public Schools?
  Nikole Hannah-Jones, NY Times Magazine (First Words), Feb. 21, 2017 "Democracy works only if those who have the money or the power to opt out of public things choose instead to opt in for the common good. It’s called a social contract, and we’ve seen what happens in cities where the social contract is broken: White residents vote against tax hikes to fund schools where they don’t send their children, parks go untended and libraries shutter because affluent people feel no obligation to help pay for things they don’t need. “The existence of public things — to meet each other, to fight about, to pay for together, to enjoy, to complain about — this is absolutely indispensable to democratic life,” Honig says."
• How The Systemic Segregation Of Schools Is Maintained By 'Individual Choices'
  NPR Fresh Air, January 16, 2017 Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross that when it comes to school segregation, separate is never truly equal. "There's never been a moment in the history of this country where black people who have been isolated from white people have gotten the same resources," Hannah-Jones says. "They often don't have the same level of instruction. They often don't have strong principals. They often don't have the same technology." Still, when it was time for Hannah-Jones' daughter, Najya, to attend kindergarten, the journalist chose the public school near their home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, even though its students were almost all poor and black or Latino. Hannah-Jones later wrote about that decision in The New York Times Magazine. Before she joined The New York Times to cover racial injustice, Nikole Hannah-Jones was an award-winning reporter at Propublica.
• PBS Frontline - Separate and Unequal (27 min)
  Separate and Unequal PBS Frontline, July 15, 2014 "Public schools are more segregated now than in 1968."
• Sherick Hughes - Black Hands in the Biscuits, Not in the Classrooms: Unveiling Hope in a Struggle for Brown’s Promise
  Hughes, Sherick A. (2006). Black Hands in the Biscuits, Not in the Classrooms: Unveiling Hope in a Struggle for Brown’s Promise. N.Y.: Peter Lang.
• The State of Things: Segregation Again (17:30)
  June 26, 2014. A report by The Civil Rights Project documents North Carolina’s shift from being a leader in desegregation efforts to a state whose schools are increasingly more segregated by both race and socio-economic status. The report shows segregation has concrete impacts on both the educational and social experiences of students.
  Host Frank Stasio talks with Jenn Ayscue, research associate at The Civil Rights Project who co-authored the report; and Mark Dorosin, managing attorney at The UNC Center for Civil Rights.
• You should feel sick: Speaker says racial caste system in NC schools is our choice
  Ann Doss Helms, October 3, 2018, News & Observer When acclaimed education writer Nikole Hannah-Jones visits schools where virtually all students are poor and black, she sees not only a legacy of historic racism but a result of choices by parents who talk about equality while sacrificing other children to give their own kids advantages.