Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469627830
- eISBN:
- 9781469627854
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469627830.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation. We are currently allowing a labyrinthine ...
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How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation. We are currently allowing a labyrinthine system of school district boundaries to cleave students—and opportunities—along racial and economic lines. Rather than confronting these realities, though, most contemporary educational policies focus on improving schools by raising academic standards, holding teachers and students accountable through test performance, and promoting private-sector competition. WHEN THE FENCES COME DOWN takes us into the heart of the metropolitan South to explore what happens when communities instead focus squarely on overcoming the educational divide between city and suburb. Based on widely differing and highly illustrative experiences with regional school desegregation in Richmond, Virginia; Louisville, Kentucky; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; and Chattanooga, Tennessee between 1990 and 2010, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley uses quantitative methods and innovative mapping tools to both underscore the damages wrought by school district boundary lines and raise awareness about communities that have sought to counteract them. She shows that city-suburban school desegregation policy is related to clear-cut progress on both school and housing desegregation. WHEN THE FENCES COME DOWN revisits educational policies that in many cases were abruptly halted—or never begun—to spur an open conversation about the creation of the healthy, integrated schools and communities critical to our multiracial future.Less
How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation. We are currently allowing a labyrinthine system of school district boundaries to cleave students—and opportunities—along racial and economic lines. Rather than confronting these realities, though, most contemporary educational policies focus on improving schools by raising academic standards, holding teachers and students accountable through test performance, and promoting private-sector competition. WHEN THE FENCES COME DOWN takes us into the heart of the metropolitan South to explore what happens when communities instead focus squarely on overcoming the educational divide between city and suburb. Based on widely differing and highly illustrative experiences with regional school desegregation in Richmond, Virginia; Louisville, Kentucky; Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina; and Chattanooga, Tennessee between 1990 and 2010, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley uses quantitative methods and innovative mapping tools to both underscore the damages wrought by school district boundary lines and raise awareness about communities that have sought to counteract them. She shows that city-suburban school desegregation policy is related to clear-cut progress on both school and housing desegregation. WHEN THE FENCES COME DOWN revisits educational policies that in many cases were abruptly halted—or never begun—to spur an open conversation about the creation of the healthy, integrated schools and communities critical to our multiracial future.
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469627830
- eISBN:
- 9781469627854
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469627830.003.0003
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
This chapter illuminates the reciprocal relationship between school and housing segregation. Based largely on the work of noted desegregation scholars, it discusses the theory and research underlying ...
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This chapter illuminates the reciprocal relationship between school and housing segregation. Based largely on the work of noted desegregation scholars, it discusses the theory and research underlying the school-housing link and shows how city-suburban school desegregation policies are far more effective than policies limited to central cities in integrating schools and neighborhoods. It also draws upon a new base of evidence documenting the long-term and extensive relationship between patterns of metropolitan housing development and school construction. With such deeply rooted connections between the two spheres, the chapter acknowledges the latent power in tackling school and housing issues together. Yet despite the increasingly well-acknowledged relationship, many places have relied almost exclusively on school desegregation to begin dismantling American apartheid.Less
This chapter illuminates the reciprocal relationship between school and housing segregation. Based largely on the work of noted desegregation scholars, it discusses the theory and research underlying the school-housing link and shows how city-suburban school desegregation policies are far more effective than policies limited to central cities in integrating schools and neighborhoods. It also draws upon a new base of evidence documenting the long-term and extensive relationship between patterns of metropolitan housing development and school construction. With such deeply rooted connections between the two spheres, the chapter acknowledges the latent power in tackling school and housing issues together. Yet despite the increasingly well-acknowledged relationship, many places have relied almost exclusively on school desegregation to begin dismantling American apartheid.
Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469627830
- eISBN:
- 9781469627854
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469627830.003.0008
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
The afterword of When the Fences Come Down documents a conversation with one of the nation’s leading experts on school desegregation, Dr. Gary Orfield.
The afterword of When the Fences Come Down documents a conversation with one of the nation’s leading experts on school desegregation, Dr. Gary Orfield.
