Ilana Horn: Racialized Closures and the Shuttering of Black Schools: Evidence from National Data meridian.allenpress.com/her/article/...

Racialized Closures and the Shuttering of Black Schools: Evidence from National Data meridian.allenpress.com/her/article/...

Racialized Closures and the Shuttering of Black Schools: Evidence from National Datameridian.allenpress.com In this article Danielle Marie Greene-Bell and Francis A. Pearman II examine racial disparities in school closures across the United States, with a particular interest in majority Black schools. Using...

"majority Black schools are far more likely to close than non–majority Black schools, and these elevated closure rates are not fully accounted for by observable differences like achievement levels, enrollment patterns, and the socioeconomic status of their surrounding communities"

I have a friend who recently did her dissertation on school closures in Chicago. I also have a chaptper coming out soon about how my school (who was on the chopping block) took the city to court...and won.

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