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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are an AA family planning on staying in DC (Shepherd/Deal/Wilson), but if we were moving to the suburbs, I think I'd look in several areas of Silver Spring/Takoma Park, based on the diversity and the presence of other black educated families we know there.  I'm thinking about Forest Glen, Woodside Park, etc.

There was a study featured in the NYT a couple of years ago that looked at earnings in adulthood for black and white boys.  It found that black boys, even from middle class or UMC backgrounds, earn less in adulthood relative to white boys from of similar SES backgrounds.  This was true in all but a few areas in the country, with one such area being in Silver Spring:

"The authors, including the Stanford economist Raj Chetty and two census researchers, Maggie R. Jones and Sonya R. Porter, [b]tried to identify neighborhoods where poor black boys do well, and as well as whites.

“The problem,” Mr. Chetty said, “is that there are essentially no such neighborhoods in America.”
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The few neighborhoods that met this standard were in areas that showed less discrimination in surveys and tests of racial bias. They mostly had low poverty rates. And, intriguingly, these pockets — including [b]parts of the Maryland suburbs of Washington, and corners of Queens and the Bronx — were the places where many lower-income black children had fathers at home. [/b]Poor black boys did well in such places, whether their own fathers were present or not."

Here's the original paper, which mentions "Downtown Silver Spring, Woodside Park, Woodside Forest" in Table XV.

http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race_paper.pdf

If even poor black kids do well in these areas of Silver Spring, that would give me some confidence that my child from a middle/upper middle class background would also do well there.[/quote]
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