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. School segregation remains a persistent problem in much of the country, and it's ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. We humans have a tendency to carve up our cities into “the ...

Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to segregate schools by race in Brown v. Board of Education, racial and economic segregation remains "commonplace" ...

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 ...