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CitiesMay 15, 2014
How a ‘New Secessionist’ Movement Is Threatening to Worsen School Segregation and Widen Inequalities
Sixty years after Brown, whiter, wealthier communities are breaking away from racially and economically diverse school districts.
Susan Eaton
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Immigration PolicyAugust 10, 2011
A New Kind of Southern Strategy
The threat of Arizona-style laws has strengthened pro-immigrant coalitions in unlikely places.
Susan Eaton
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EducationMay 27, 2010
The Pull of Magnets
Despite the hype around charters, it’s magnet schools that have a real track record of success.
Susan Eaton
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March 26, 2009
A ‘Stolen’ Education
An inner-city mother jailed for sending her kids to a suburban school district? This belongs to a past we’d do best to leave behind.
Susan Eaton
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PoliticsDecember 22, 2004
Wrong for Civil Rights
When Mary Frances Berry resigned as chair of the Commission on Civil Rights on December 7, the media’s harsh, fleeting spotlight on Berry’s purported combativeness distracted readers from the rea
Susan Eaton
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Education ReformFebruary 13, 2003
Back to Segregation
Sit in classrooms, eat in lunchrooms, romp on playgrounds and wander the hallways in randomly selected public schools in America: It’s right here, in the nation’s increasingly segregated and as
Gary Orfield and Susan Eaton