An analysis provided by the New School Center for New York City Affairs suggests that the recipe which creates segregation in schools is more complicated than originally thought (Harris 2015). Studies now show that racial diversity in neighborhoods does not automatically translate into racial diversity in the schools of those neighborhoods. A comparable example of this ongoing problem is the New York City public school system. Hemphill and Mader asked, “In multi-ethnic New York City, why are so many elementary schools segregated by race and class?” Hemphill and Mader state, “For years, school officials and researchers have assumed that school segregation merely reflects segregated housing patterns—because most children attend their zoned
