Amazing - I'll shoot you an email!

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I think I saw you tweet about Manalapan one time and made the connection- small world! And I actually attended Marlboro HS through the magnet program, too.

Calculated it myself! Using data from the CCD and some data I have from old OCR surveys, h/t Sarah Reber. Sort of comically, whenever I need a refresher on how to calculate this, I actually go to the same page: www.dartmouth.edu/~segregation...

23/23 And sometimes, we don't even realize when A past IS also part of OUR past.

22/ I told Sarah the other day that the number of years from today to her day of birth is greater than the number of years from her day of birth to the day Brown v. Board was decided. As Faulkner wrote "The past is never dead. It's not even past".

21/ I write this all partially because it is my own story and despite that fact, I am still shocked at how pervasive school segregation is in the present day. It is everywhere, from the urban core, to urban/suburban divides, to small towns far(ish) from a city like my own hometown of Freehold.

20/ Within district school segregation by race/ethnicity has decreased across the two Freehold districts. But across district segregation has actually increased!

19/ In the present day, that same index is 64% (sn: the dissimilarity index is not affected by overall representation of any particular subgroup, which is important given demographic shifts in Freehold). In other words, since the era of school desegregation...

18/ In 1969, the Freehold Borough+Township dissimilarity index was .57. 57% of Black/Hispanic students would have needed to switch schools for all schools in the combined district to have the same proportion of Black/Hispanic students.