Our primary measure to assess residential segregation was what’s known as the index of dissimilarity. It represents the percentage of an area's demographic group needing to move to another ...

In a memo to staff, Deputy Managing Editor Sarah Nordgren described how an AP analysis of charter school enrollment data allowed member news organizations to zero in on segregation in their states: It ...

Washington, D.C. — A new analysis by the Center for American Progress, which examined 1,700 large public school districts across the country, affirms that public schools are in as much need of ...

There’s a new narrative that U.S. schools are “resegregating” along racial lines. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights used the word “resegregation” on the headline of a recent press release and ...

WASHINGTON -- Poor, black and Hispanic children are becoming increasingly isolated from their affluent, white peers in the nation's public schools, according to federal data released Tuesday. The data ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area is one of the most racially segregated metros in the country. More than half of the tri-state area's neighborhoods are extremely ...

Recently, The New York Times reported on RoomSync, a Facebook app that colleges can use to allow incoming freshmen to screen and choose potential roommates based on lifestyle criteria that matter to ...

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