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Understanding the Housing-School Relationship: Achieving Integration in Racially Changing Cities and Suburbs. Equity by Design
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Diem, Sarah; Walters, Sarah W. – Equity Assistance Center Region III, Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center, 2019
The purpose of this "Equity by Design" brief is to provide information to parents, community members, and school district leaders and teachers about the relationship between housing policy and school policy. Specifically, this brief provides a succinct history of U.S. housing policy, discusses some current educational policies that…
Descriptors: Housing, Public Policy, School Policy, United States History
Challenging Boundaries, Changing Fate? Metropolitan Inequality and the Legacy of "Milliken"
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Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Finnigan, Kara S.; Diem, Sarah – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background: This article examines the contemporary implications of the "Milliken v. Bradley" (1974) decision for educational inequality between school districts in U.S. metropolitan areas. We focus upon four metropolitan areas that were highly segregated in the 1970s but which met different fates in court: We first examine Detroit and…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Equal Education, School Desegregation