Rigor and Relationships: The Positive Case for Integration in Schools and Neighborhoods

Authors

Rachel D. Godsil, Rutgers Law School

Abstract

This Essay first explores the current conditions of schools and neighborhoods and the impediments to achieving successful integration in schools- implicit bias, racial anxiety, and stereotype threat. Second, the Essay then identifies the strategies that are being employed in some schools to overcome these impediments and create quality schools that educate all students in a just and effective manner. Finally, the Essay explains how integrated neighborhoods would be the most effective long-term solution to the stereotyping and biases that underlie racial injustices across the board.

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Education Law | Housing Law | Law | Law and Race | Law and Society

Recommended Citation

Rachel D. Godsil, Rigor and Relationships: The Positive Case for Integration in Schools and Neighborhoods, 40 Cardozo L. Rev. 1287 (2019).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol40/iss3/9