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4 Segregation in Housing and Education
4 Segregation in Housing and Education
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• achievement gap in education can be explained by resi ential The d segregation because unequal social and economic conditions that impact academic performance are disproportionately present in segregated neighborhoods, which then feed into segregated schools. • Federal housing policies included clauses that prohibited sale, resale, or rental of homes in post-World War II suburban devel opments to African Americans.
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THE MYTH OF RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AS DE FACTO SEGREGATION In the first part of the 20th century, the civil rights movement began by challenging segregation in law schools, Mr. Rothstein said, and then went on to challenging segregation in colleges and universities, leading to Brown v.
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. In his controlling opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that de facto neighborhood segregation caused the school segregation, and the U.S.
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"This was not the action of rogue bureaucrats at the FHA or VA," he said. "It was written out in a federal policy manual distributed to appraisers all over the country." The manual further stated that federal financing guarantees would not be given to integrated developments or even to all-white developments located near an African American neighborhood.
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He said: That enormous gap between a 60 percent income ratio and a 7 percent wealth ratio is entirely attributed to unconstitutional federal housing policies that has never been remedied, that we have never taken as an obligation to remedy. We are clouded by this myth of de facto segregation.
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He called for a "new civil rights movement to create the atmosphere to make it uncomfortable to maintain the policies of segregation, just as the past civil rights movement made it uncomfortable to maintain other forms of segregation in the 20th century." He concluded, "with this much more accurate and passionate public discussion of racial inequality and the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow, I am hopeful we can develop a new civil rights movement that will redress residential segregation and take care, at least in part, of the consequences I have described." DISCUSSION Related to the achievement gap in education, a participant asked Mr. Rothstein about the effect of online learning resulting from COVID-19 school closures.
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"I estimate that the coronavirus will add another half-year." He called for vastly increased resources to low-income schools to offset the effect of the coronavirus on the achievement gap. Another participant commented that FHA and VA discrimination is not common knowledge and asked how to increase public understanding of this history.
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2020. The coronavirus will explode achievement gaps in education.
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