Students in front of lockers

What Future for School Integration? (Pt. 3)

August 17, 2015

Previously discussed in What Future for School Integration Part 2, today we provide another take on controlled choice school enrollment, not unlike the income-based controlled...
logo

What Future for School Integration? (Pt. 2)

August 13, 2015

While the regional open enrollment plan helped to achieve greater racial integration in Connecticut schools, this approach may not be suitable in all cases. At smaller scales,...
School Children

What Future for School Integration?

July 31, 2015

In a previous post on Brown v. Board and racial segregation in America’s schools, ongoing integration efforts in the Connecticut schools were presented as a positive example of...
logo

The Worsening Case of Segregation in America’s Neighborhoods

July 16, 2015

A new study on racial and income segregation in America sheds new light on the depth of these problems and exemplifies the dangers of color-blindness in housing, education,...
Government building

SCOTUS Decision: “Disparate Impact” and the Future of Equal Access to Housing

June 25, 2015

The Supreme Court released its decision today on the constitutionality of a policy aimed at promoting racially and socioeconomically-diverse, integrated communities across...
From Desegregation to Resegregation

Brown v. Board at 61

June 23, 2015

“Today, education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments…It is the very foundation of good citizenship. Today, it is a principal instrument...
Michael Eric Dyson

Nationally Renowned Academic, Author And Radio Host Dr. Michael Eric Dyson to Speak at WCCCD’s Global Conversations Series

October 16, 2014

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson , nationally renowned American intellectual, author and radio host will speak at the Wayne County Community College District Downtown Campus at 10 a.m....
Neil Degrasse Tyson

World Renowned Astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson to Keynote at Wayne County Community College District

September 4, 2014

World-renowned astrophysicist, Cosmos host, author and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson will keynote the Wayne County Community College District Chancellor’s Banquet 6...
logo

University of Texas’ Affirmative Action Safe After Fifth Circuit Affirms Poor Ruling

July 31, 2014

As of Tuesday, July 15, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the University of Texas at Austin could continue using affirmative action in its admission...
logo

New ‘State of the Science: Implicit Bias Review’ Released By Kirwan Institute

May 20, 2014

Recent research from the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity at The Ohio State University indicates that employers exhibit an unconscious bias that can compel...