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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Poor, black and Hispanic children are becoming increasingly isolated from their affluent, white peers in the nation's public schools, according to federal data released Tuesday. The data ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area is one of the most racially segregated metros in the country. More than half of the tri-state area's neighborhoods are extremely ...

This is The Week In Data, our data journalism roundup. Here you’ll find the most-read FiveThirtyEight articles of the past week, as well as gems we spotted elsewhere on the Internet. On the road: The ...