The findings are for 40 states and the District of Columbia all those with at least three years of test data.
Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, a professor of sociology and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, writes that schools cannot be integrated without taking housing policy into account.
“Attempting to create education policy for integrated schools without developing housing policies for integrated neighborhoods is akin to cleaning the air on one side of a screen door,” she wrote.
