Testimony: In Residential Zoning Policy, Congress Must Tear Down the Walls We...
TCF senior fellow and director of K–12 equity Richard D. Kahlenberg presented testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance on October...
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The Walls of Exclusion in Massachusetts
For more than a half century and up to this day, Massachusetts’s well-earned reputation for liberalism and compassion have been at war with another, darker side that seeks exclusion, by race and class,...
View ArticleA Civil Rights Hero Is Honored
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. championed both racial and economic justice during his lifetime, and in the five decades since King’s assassination, no one has pursued that dual agenda more faithfully and...
View ArticleSchool Segregation in Cities Across America Mapped
About the Project This interactive data dashboard allows researchers to quantify school segregation and its contributing factors to inform policy discussions and fuel engagement and action. An...
View ArticleSchool Segregation in U.S. Metro Areas
Integrated schools and classrooms help all students thrive in a diverse world. But creating more opportunities for integration requires first diagnosing the problem by understanding the different...
View ArticleWhen Racial Integration and Inclusion of Students with Disabilities Go Hand...
Integration of students by race and class and inclusion of students with disabilities are educational goals with many linkages, past and present. This past May marked the sixty-eighth anniversary of...
View ArticleStrong Foundations: Promoting Diverse and Inclusive Preschool Settings
As publicly funded preschool programming continues to grow, commitment to the creation of inclusive and equitable preschool settings remains core to ensuring students’ academic success and social...
View ArticleAmericans Want Integrated Schools. Too Many Schools Are the Opposite.
More than six decades after Brown v. Board of Education, Black and Latinx students across the nation are still disproportionately confined to racially and economically segregated, underfunded schools....
View ArticleStudent Assignment and Enrollment Policies that Advance School Integration: A...
This report was prepared by The Century Foundation at the request of the District of Columbia Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME), with funding from Education Forward DC, as part of a series...
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How My Family’s Immigration Story Connects to Integration
My abuelitos emigrated to California from the state of Jalisco, Mexico in 1948. Remigio Vázquez was from a small town called Atotonilquillo and was the first in his family to leave the pueblo: he went...
View Article70 Years After Brown v. Board, Americans Committed to Finishing the Job of...
This year marks seventy years since the U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark case where a unanimous court overruled the doctrine of “separate but equal” and called for...
View ArticleThe Future of Brown Is Multiracial
This commentary is an updated version of an article originally published in the Poverty & Race Journal, Volume 33: Issue 1 (Link) on April 24, 2024. Around the birth of the Civil Rights Movement,...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Made Us Forget Why Diversity Matters Most
“Perhaps no case in modern memory has received so much media coverage and scholarly commentary,” said a Supreme Court justice before announcing the high court’s decision in the most consequential...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Difference between Affinity Spaces and Segregation
What differentiates affinity spaces from segregation? In this clip from TCF’s seventieth anniversary commemoration of Brown v. Board of Education (Brown v. Board at 70: Fulfilling the True Promise of...
View ArticleHow Charter, Magnet, and Innovative District Schools Can Help Overcome School...
A recent study conducted to coincide with the seventieth anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education found that school segregation has increased over the past three decades, especially in urban areas....
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