Our primary measure to assess residential segregation was what’s known as the index of dissimilarity. It represents the percentage of an area's demographic group needing to move to another ...

This data is part of a series on segregation in Illinois that resulted from a six-month Governing investigation. Elevated levels of school segregation between blacks and whites remain prevalent ...

Recently, The New York Times reported on RoomSync, a Facebook app that colleges can use to allow incoming freshmen to screen and choose potential roommates based on lifestyle criteria that matter to ...

There’s a new narrative that U.S. schools are “resegregating” along racial lines. The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights used the word “resegregation” on the headline of a recent press release and ...

In a memo to staff, Deputy Managing Editor Sarah Nordgren described how an AP analysis of charter school enrollment data allowed member news organizations to zero in on segregation in their states: It ...