With the exception of Maryland, which has been a highly problematic state for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) due to long-term and pervasive de facto segregation, none of the five states studied had a "strategy to link state appropriations, tuition, and financial aid in ways that [would] help achieve higher levels of educational attainment," (p. 6).
While ethnic residential segregation is pervasive, opportunities to meet are greater at places of work because workplaces are less segregated than neighbourhoods, and differences between immigrant and native labour-market outcomes tend to decrease over time (Ellis et al. 2004; Houston et al. 2005; Rendall et al. 2010; Rebhun 2010; Tammaru et al. 2010a, b).
Segregation is still pervasive, he reckons.
The fact that segregation was once pervasive throughout the United States has been all but missing from the news coverage of Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi in the days since he said the country would have been a better place if Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948.
Recent U.S. census data shows that present-day residential segregation is more pervasive than many Americans realize, and that patterns of racial segregation from the days of state-sponsored discrimination persist.
In 1996, a decision in the state's Supreme Court in a case called Sheff v. O'Neill ruled that "racial and ethnic segregation has a pervasive and invidious impact on schools," and ordered the governor and state legislature to find a solution.
This intersection drove Rosa Parks, the noted civil rights activist, to spend much of her life combating not just segregation, but also the pervasive sexual violence against black women.
IT pros reporting for work are astonished by the few Americans working and offended by the open segregation that's now pervasive.
Through experts, civil rights advocates, and fair housing testers, the film also recounts our nation's often overlooked history of residential segregation and introduces viewers to systemic and pervasive injustices that, despite the existence of fair housing laws, continue to inflict harm on entire communities and individuals throughout America.
But returning to the purely neighborhood model won't help -- over the last thirty years, neighborhood income segregation has increased significantly, and de facto racial segregation remains pervasive.
