nycASID’s
RESOURCE GUIDE

Getting up to Speed on School Segregation

Learn the Terms

• Review the definitions of the critical terms for understanding our mission

The problem of school segregation 

• Listen to The Problem We All Live With, Part One

• Read this interview with Nikole Hannah-Jones

• Read this article about school segregation in cities

• Read this Q&A piece on school integration

• Read this explainer on school segregation

• Listen to this podcast about an underappreciated side effect of Brown vs. Board of education

• Listen to this podcast about the re-emergence of school segregation

• Watch this piece on school segregation 60 years after Brown vs. Board of Education

The current state of school segregation in NYC

• Read NYU Metro Center Report Separate and Unequal

• Read NY Appleseed’s Within our Reach series

• Read recent testimony to the NYC council by Richard Kahlenberg and Kimberly Quick of the Century Foundation

• Read this article on how family choices reinforce segregation in NYC

Benefits of school integration

• Read Century Foundation’s report How Racially Diverse Schools and Classrooms Can Benefit All Students

• Read this article on benefits of school integration and its proponents

• Breakdown on how white students benefit from school integration

• Summary of research on benefits of integrated schools

Possible solutions and case studies

• Discussion of schools that have been successfully integrated

• Student-led initiatives for desegregating NYC schools

• Listen to The Problem We All Live With, Part Two to learn about Hartford, CT’s efforts at integration

• Read recent testimony to the NYC council by Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation

• nycASID’s policy proposal for integrating NYC’s schools