Growing economic segregation among school districts and schools

Since the Great Recession, increasing media and popular attention has focused on inequalities between high- and low-income families. Rising income inequality means those at the top have a growing resource advantage. Some high-income families use these resources to pay for housing in particular neighborhoods, resulting in increasing segregation by income between neighborhoods over the past four decades. Residential segregation creates inequalities between neighborhoods, and neighborhood contexts are critical for children’s development. Children who grow up in disadvantaged......(read more)

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