Nashville's 1937 redlining map still shapes who lives where and how they fare. Our new research brief asks whether that geometry has traveled 45 miles up I-24, and what it found surprises both cities.

Rajah E. Smart, Ed.D. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Spatial Equity and Education; Director, Tennessee Educational Funding and Policy It is my privilege to announce the publication of Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Journal of Spatial Equity and Education (JSEE), the inaugural issue of a journal built on a single conviction: place is not the backdrop against which policy happens. Place is a variable. It carries information, it distributes costs and benefits unevenly, and it echoes long