Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journals
Mordechay, K. & Terbeck, F. (2023). Moving towards Integration or Segregation? Racial Change in Suburban Public Schools. Education Policy. Doi: 0.1177/0895048231178
Mordechay, K. & Terbeck, F. (2023). Moving Out and Apart: Race, Poverty, and the Suburbanization of Public-School Segregation. American Journal of Education. Doi: 10.1086/723065
Ayscue, J., Beam, L. & Mordechay, K. (2022). “An Opportunity to Grow Our Collective Consciousness”: Navigating Racial Tension in a Gentrifying Elementary School. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. Doi: 10.1177/1555458921138606
Mordechay, K. & Ayscue, J. (2022). Diversifying Neighborhoods, Diversifying Schools? The Relationship Between Neighborhood Racial Change and School Segregation in New York City. Education and Urban Society. Doi: 10.1177/00131245221110555
Mordechay, K. (2021). A Double Edge Sword: Tensions of Integration amidst a Diversifying Public School. Leadership and Policy in Schools. Doi: 10.1080/15700763.2021.1879165
Mordechay, K. (2020). Race, Space, and America’s Subprime Housing Boom. Urban Geography. Doi: 10.1080/02723638.2020.1757860
Mordechay, K. & Ayscue, J. (2020). Does Neighborhood Gentrification Create School Desegregation? Teachers College Record., 122 (5), pp.
Mordechay, K., Gándara, P., & Orfield, G. (April 2019). Embracing the Effects of Demographic Change. Educational Leadership, 76 (7), 34-40.
Mordechay, K. & Alfaro, C. (2019). The Binational Context of the Students We Share: What Do Educators on Both Sides of the Border Need to Know? Kappa Delta Pi Record, 55 (1), 30-35.
Mordechay, K. (2018) More than just class: school mobility among Black children in the Great Recession. Urban Education. Doi: 10.177/0042085918789740
Mordechay, K., & Ayscue, J. (2018). Policies needed to build inclusive cities and schools. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 26 (98) 1-14.
Mordechay, K. & Orfield, G. (2017). Demographic Transformation in a Policy Vacuum: The Changing Face of U.S. Metropolitan Society and Challenges for Public Schools. The Educational Forum, 81 (2), 193-203.
Mordechay, K. (2017). The Effects of the Great Recession on the School Mobility of Youth. Education and Urban Society. 50 (7), 595-616.
Gándara, P. & Mordechay, K. (2017). Demographic Change and the New (and not so new) Challenges for Latino Education. The Educational Forum, 81(2), 148-159.
Mordechay, K. (2017). High School Graduation Rates in The Great Recession: Evidence from a Large School District. The Urban Review. 49(1), 47-7.
Other Scholarly Publications
Ayscue, J. B., Pabello, D.M, & Mordechay, K. (Mar, 2024). Gentrification’s impact on school demographics: A study of 3 California cities. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution.
Mordechay, K., Pabello, D.M, & Ayscue, J. B. (Nov, 2023). Gentrification and Schools: Challenges, Opportunities, and Policy Options. Los Angeles, CA: The Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
Mordechay, K., & Ayscue, J. B. (July, 2021 ). Diversifying Neighborhoods, Diversifying Schools? The Relationship between Neighborhood Racial Change and School Segregation in New York City. Working Paper 244: National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Mordechay, K. (March, 2021). Gentrification, Demographic Change, and the Challenges of Integration. Washington, DC: Poverty and Race Research Action Council.
Mordechay, K. (2020). Inland Boom and Bust: Race, Place, and the Lasting Consequences of the Southern California Housing Boom. Berkeley, CA: Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley.
Mordechay, K., & Ayscue, J. B. (2019 March). School Integration in Gentrifying Neighborhoods: Evidence from New York City. Los Angeles, CA: The Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
Mordechay, K., & Ayscue, J. B. (2017 December). White growth, persistent segregation: Could gentrification become integration? Los Angeles, CA: The Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
Mordechay, K. (2014). Vast Changes and an Uneasy Future. Los Angeles: CA: Los Angeles, CA: Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
Mordechay, K. (2011). Fragmented Economy, Stratified Society, and The Shattered Dream. Los Angeles, CA: Civil Rights Project at UCLA.
Mordechay, K., & Roda, A. (2022, April). Gentrifying Neighborhoods Open Opportunities for School Integration. School Administrator Magazine.
Mordechay, K., (2020, June). What the Looming Economic Collapse Could Mean for Education. Education Week.
Mordechay, K., & Ayscue, J. B. (2019, July). How Gentrification by Urban Millennials Improves Public School Diversity. Bloomberg CityLab.
Mordechay, K. (2018, March). Schools as Anchors and Diversity. UC Berkeley Center for Cities and Schools.
Mordechay, K. (2018, February). Could Gentrification be Changing DC Schools for the Better? National Housing Institute Shelter Force Magazine.
Mordechay, K. (2018, February). A Unique Opportunity for Integration, Inclusion, and Equity. New York University Metropolitan Center.
Mordechay, K. (2017, November). The Demographics of America’s schools are changing, and policymakers need to be up to the challenge. The London School of Economics and Political Science: USAPP.
Mordechay, K. (2017, May). Urban America and Future of Schools. Kappa Delta Pi Blog.
Mordechay, K. (2014, April). Forging California’s Destiny. The Huffington Post.
Mordechay, K. (2014). The Geography of Language by State and County. Civil Rights Project at UCLA.