Why Segregation Matters: Poverty and Educational Inequality

Author: Gary Olfield and Chungmei Lee
Organization: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University
Year Published: 2005

The report focuses on segregation and the increased segregation in schools by socio-economic status. With an emphasis on multiracial discrimination, poverty, and segregation, the authors present a variety of ELL demographic data by region related to poverty. In addition, the authors show how rapidly changing demographic changes challenge more typical notions of segregation.

Citation

Orfield, G. and Lee, C. (2005, January). Why segregation matters: Poverty and educational inequality. Cambridge, MA: Civil Rights Project, Harvard University.