The Racial Achievement Gap, Segregated Schools, and Segregated Neighborhoods – A Constitutional Insult

The Racial Achievement Gap, Segregated Schools, and Segregated Neighborhoods – A Constitutional Insult: Publication in: Race and Social Problems 6 (4), December 2014. Abstract Social and economic disadvantage – not only poverty, but a host of associated conditions – depresses student performance. Concentrating students with these disadvantages in racially and economically homogenous schools depresses it further. Schools that the most disadvantaged black children attend are segregated because they …