Joanne Jacobs
Integrating by choice in San Antonio
San Antonio is using school choice to integrate its schools — and to raise test scores, report Beth Hawkins on The 74. San Antonio’s...
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 10, 20181 min read
Magnet schools turn away blacks, Latinos
Magnet schools in Hartford, Connecticut are turning away black and brown students in the name of integration, reports Erika Sanzi on Good...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 1, 20181 min read
A not-so-integrated high school
America to Me, now on Starz, explores a suburban Chicago high school where black and white students “find themselves on different tracks,...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 19, 20182 min read
Integration is not parents’ priority
With charter schools, urban parochial schools and “a few unicorn-y school districts” showing that low-income black and Latino kids can do...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 5, 20182 min read
We didn’t choose integration for our kids
As a second grader, Tanzi West Barbour, a black girl living in a white neighborhood in Fort Worth, was bused to an all-black school as...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 25, 20181 min read
Choice integrates — and gentrifies
School choice encourages integration and gentrification in low-income, minority neighborhoods, writes Matt Barnum on Chalkbeat. “The...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 6, 20182 min read
Integration’s limits
Success Academy Cobble Hill is one of a handful of New York City schools with a racially and economically diverse student body and a very...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 26, 20171 min read
Integration doesn’t mean equality
School integration is a mirage, writes RiShawn Biddle of Dropout Nation. Cambridge,Massachusetts is a “leader in school...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 20, 20171 min read
‘Teach Us All’ troubles activists
Teach Us All, a documentary on school integration, “troubles some activists,” writes Chalkbeat’s Christina Veiga. The movie highlights...
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 26, 20171 min read
Where poor kids are learning — Texas
Only 4 percent of schools have closed the economic achievement gap, according to the Education Equality Index. Brownsville, Texas, a...
Joanne Jacobs
May 4, 20171 min read
Black teachers matter — integration doesn’t
Integrated schools won’t close the racial achievement gap, argues Rafiq R. Kalam Id-Din II in an Education Week commentary. Black...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 3, 20171 min read
It’s hard to create schools that ‘work for everybody’
Creating schools that “work for everybody” is a challenge, writes Education Week‘s Catherine Gewertz. When the bell rings at Wheaton...
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