Reports, News & Updates

This new resource challenges the myth that gifted programs must be separate and competitive. Instead, it presents a vision for inclusive enrichment in integrated classrooms that benefits all students.

New York Appleseed’s 2020 Within Our Reach briefing updates its groundbreaking work on segregation in NYC elementary schools, showing how policy, not geography, drives inequity and what can still be done to change it.

New York Appleseed’s Within Our Reach series explores how racial and economic segregation persists in NYC schools—and what can be done to change it. These briefings, developed with Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, demonstrate that meaningful integration is both possible and necessary.

Based on scores of interviews, research, and successful advocacy, we set out to uncover and demystify those formal structures beyond housing patterns that perpetuated racial and economic segregation in schools