How does an online community, dominated by privileged parents, discuss its local school system? In a new report titled “We all want what’s best for our kids: Discussions of D.C. public school options in an online forum,” Brookings researchers examined thousands of messages on the D.C. Urban Moms school discussion forum to find out what they were talking about and how their conversations reflect continued racial segregation in the public schools of the nation’s capital. The report is co-authored by Vanessa Williamson, Jackson Gode, and Hao Sun. Williamson, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, joins the Cafeteria to discuss the report.
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PodcastWhat online forum discussions reveal about segregation in DC public schools
Vanessa Williamson and
Vanessa Williamson
Senior Fellow
- Governance Studies,
Senior Fellow
- Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
@v_williamson
Fred Dews
Fred Dews
Managing Editor, Podcasts and Digital Products
- Office of Communications
@publichistory
April 9, 2021