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Lisa Hanzl; Gregory Gilpin – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Local public institutions, such as public libraries, offer access to low-cost educational resources, potentially mitigating human capital investment disparities. However, from 2008 to 2019, 766 public library outlets closed across the US, reducing access to these critical resources. This study examines the effect of public library outlet closures…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, Library Materials, Resources, Access to Information
Elizabeth Setren – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Over sixty years following Brown vs. Board of Education, racial and socioeconomic segregation and lack of equal access to educational opportunities persist. Across the country, voluntary desegregation busing programs aim to ameliorate these imbalances and disparities. A longstanding Massachusetts program, METCO, buses K-12 students of color from…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Student Diversity, Equal Education, Desegregation Methods