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Ann Owens; Peter Rich – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2023
Suburbs were once a haven for advantaged, White families to avoid city life and access high-status schools. This urban-suburban divide, however, has changed in recent decades as suburban communities (and their school districts) have diversified. This study provides an updated cross-sectional portrait of recent racial-ethnic segregation and…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Equal Education, Urban Areas, Suburbs
Berger, Joseph B.; Smith, Suzanne M.; Coelen, Stephen P. – Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (The), 2004
The inequities of residential segregation and their impact on educational opportunity are a national problem, but greater metropolitan Boston has a particularly problematic history in terms of the extent to which racial segregation has deeply divided the city into separate and unequal systems of opportunity. Despite decades of policy efforts to…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Access to Education, Postsecondary Education, Residential Patterns