According to the video “Why are Schools in the U.S. Still Ra…
According to the video “Why are Schools in the U.S. Still Racially Segregated?,” racial segregation in our schools occurs in part due to the consequences of school boundaries, housing policy, and other demographic migration patterns. In the Urbanization and Population Growth Lesson, we explored an interactive map of racial segregation created by Bryan Mann, a researcher at the University of Kansas. He explains “policymakers must find the policies that improve the lived conditions of oppressed people to the greatest extent possible” (Mann & Rogers, 2021, p. 37). The research article “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever: Racial and economic isolation and dissimilarity in rural Black Belt schools in Alabama” is provided for you to review to determine what suggestions researchers in the field suggest. If we want to decrease educational segregation in our nation’s schools, which of the following strategies would have a big impact? (mark all that apply)