Kfir Mordechay

Peer-Reviewed Journals

• Lee, H., & Mordechay, K. (2025). Do Metropolitan Zoning Asymmetries Influence the Geography of Suburban Growth and Gentrification? Land, 14(8), 1555.

• Ayscue, J., Mordechay, K., Matthews, G., & Whetzel, J. (2025). Getting It “Right”: Educators’ Experiences With School Diversity in a Gentrifying Neighborhood. AERA Open. Doi.org/10.1177/23328584251332943

• 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.

Policy Reports and BOOk Chapters

• Mordechay, K. & Schachner, J. (2026). A Multilevel Perspective on Urban and Educational Change: Re-theorizing the link between Neighborhood Gentrification and School Demographics. In X. Bonal & M. Cordini (Eds.) Gentrification and Schooling in Global Cities. Edward Elgar.

• 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., Cordes S. (2024). Transforming neighborhoods: The potential of gentrification in neighborhood and school integration. In Ayscue J. B. (Ed.), Reimagining school integration: Possibilities for the future (pp. 113–130). Information Age Publishing.

• 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.