Segregation, Segregation, Segregation? | Feb 12th at 3:45pm
Thank you Richard Rothstein from the Economic Policy Institute. You just woke up the conference by dispelling the notion that mobility is the key for improving schools and housing. He disagreed with the notion that people move to the suburbs for good schools — rather the good schools are a byproduct of wealthy white people moving there. That white people move to the suburbs to be surrounded by other white people and away from black people. Generalizations to be sure, but there is something to this stereotype. Rothstein contends that until we better fight segregation, and the systems that lead to it, we’ll keep having the same conversations about education and housing fifty years from now.
Diana Lind is editor in chief of Next American City.
Leigh in Boston, MA on Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:00pm
That’s great! What panel is this?
Diana Lind | Next American City on Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 4:02pm
This is the panel called From Front Yards to Schoolyards: Linking Housing Policy and School Reform.