Diversity in Education

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1) 2003 - Closing the Black-White Achievement Gap: Instructional Strategies in Title I Schools

Authors: Berk, Robert Jay

Studies the connection between student achievement in reading & the Black-White achievement gap, emphasizing different instructional strategies.

2) 2003 - Tracking by Accident and by Design

Authors: Bracey, Gerald

Tracking in Japan, Germany and the US.

3) 2003 - Social Capital, Academic Capital, and the "Harm and Benefit" Thesis: Evidence from a Desegregating School District

Authors: Caldas, Stephen J., Bankston III, Carl, & Cain, Judith S.

Re-examination of the Coleman social-capital hypothesis, with specific emphasis on the "harm and benefit" thesis.

4) 2003 - The Effects of Racial Dissonance on the Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem of Hispanic Middle School Students

Authors: Castillo, Yvette Laura

Assess the relevance of Rosenberg's theory of racial dissonance with Hispanic middle school students.

5) 2003 - Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina's Public School Classrooms

Authors: Clotfelter, Charles T., Ladd, Helen, & Vigdor, Jacob

School segregation within the districts and counties in the state of NC.

6) 2003 - The Political Economy of School Choice: Linking Theory and Evidence

Authors: Cohen-Zada, Danny, & Justman, Moshe

Apply findings to simulate the impact of a hypothetical school voucher on private enrollment, the tax rate, public spending per…

7) 2003 - Equity in Heterogeneous Classrooms

Authors: Cohen, Elizabeth, & Lotan, Rachel

Argues that multicultural classrooms should be equitable classrooms through heterogeneous grouping.

8) 2003 - Disparities Within: Unequal Spending and Achievement in an Urban School District

Authors: Condron, Dennis, & Roscigno, Vincent J.

Analyzes variations in spending and achievement among 89 public elementary schools.

9) 2003 - The Effect of Schools and Classes on Language Achievement

Authors: De Fraine, Bieke, Van Damme, Jan, Van Landeghem, Georges, & Opdenakker, Marie-Christine

The effect of schools and classes upon literacy in the second grade of secondary education.

10) 2003 - Segregation and School Violence

Authors: Eitle, David, & Eitle, Tamela McNulty

Whether desegregation reduces or exacerbates the problem of school violence.

11) 2003 - Socioeconomic Integration as a Tool for Diversifying Schools: Promise and Practice in Two Large School Systems

Authors: Flinspach, Susan L., Banks, Karen, & Kahanna, Ritu

Influence of socioeconomic integration on racial-ethnic diversity in San Francisco, CA and Wake County, NC schools.

12) 2003 - Charter Schools and Race: A Lost Opportunity for Integrated Education

Authors: Frankenberg, Erica, & Lee, Chungmei

Whether or not charter schools offer a less segregated experience than the public schools to the increasing numbers of students…

13) 2003 - All Segregation Is Not Equal: The Impact of Latino and Black School Composition

Authors: Goldsmith, Pat Antonio

What is the effect of proportion Latino on the test scores of white, black, and Latino high school students?

14) 2003 - How Does Racial/Ethnic Diversity Promote Education?

Authors: Gurin, Patricia, Dey, Eric L., Gurin, Gerald, & Hurtado, Sylvia

Explores the relationship between students' experiences with diverse peers in collegiate settings and their educational outcomes.

15) 2003 - Does Peer Ability Affect Student Achievement?

Authors: Hanushek, Eric A., Kain, John F., Markman, Jacob M., & Rivkin, Steven

After removing the fixed effects of students, family, and schools, does peer achievement affect individual student achievement?

16) 2003 - School Desegregation and the American Dream

Authors: Hochschild, Jennifer, & Scovronick, Nathan

An examination of desegregation as a way to see how conflicts over the American dream have played out in America's…

17) 2003 - The Effect of Group-level Influences on Pupils' Progress in Reading

Authors: Hutchison, Dougal

Investigates the existence or otherwise of group-level effects on progress in reading.

18) 2003 - Economic School Integration

Authors: Kahlenberg, Richard D.

Explores the end of court-ordered desgregation, describes the alternative of socioeconomic integration, and sketches prospects for economic school integration in…

19) 2003 - Educational Benefits of Racially and Ethnically Diverse School

Authors: Kurlaender, Michal

Summarizes research on school desegregation and the benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in K-12 schooling.

20) 2003 - Peer Effects on Student Achievement: Evidence from Chile

Authors: McEwan, Patrick

Estimates of peer effects on student achievement, using a 1997 census of eight-grade achievement in Chile.

21) 2003 - Teacher-Student Racial Congruence, Teacher Perceptions, and Test Performance

Authors: Oates, Gary L.

Whether teacher-student racial congruence conditions the impact of teacher perceptions on performance.

22) 2003 - Beyond Black and White: The Present and Future of Multiracial Friendship Segregation

Authors: Quillian, Lincoln, & Campbell, Mary E.

Examines student friendship patterns across racial/ethnic groups in multiracial schools

23) 2003 - When Busing Ends: Resegregation and Inequality in an Urban School District

Authors: Roscigno, Vincent J., & Condron, Dennis J.

Examination of race and class segregation within one urban school district prior to and then after integration plans were dismantled.

24) 2003 - The Evolution of School Desegregation Plans Since 1954

Authors: Rossell, Christine H.

An examination of school desegregation plans since 1954.

25) 2003 - Private Choices, Public Consequences: Magnet School Choice and Segregation by Race and Poverty

Authors: Saporito, Salvatore

Link between individual choice and educational segregation.

26) 2003 - Stereotypic Explanatory Bias: Implicit Stereotyping as a Predictor of Discrimination

Authors: Sekaquaptewa, Denise, Espinoza, Penelope, Thompson, Mischa, Vargas, Patrick, & Von Hippel, William

Whether a measure of implicit stereotyping is predictive of behavior towards a partner in an interracial interaction.

27) 2003 - It's A Way Of Life For Us: High Mobility and High Achievement in Department of Defense Schools

Authors: Smrekar, Claire, & Owens, Debra

Analyze the academic performance of students in the DoDEA school system, characterized by high mobility and high diversity/integration.

28) 2003 - The Relationship Between Degrees of Poverty and Student Achievement

Authors: Sorhaindo, Linda

Determine whether there were differences in the academic achievement for 4th and 8th grade students at three different levels of…

29) 2003 - Tracking and Mixed-Ability Grouping in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms: A Case Study

Authors: Venkatakrishnan, Hamsa, & William, Dylan

Trying to test if tracking produces systematic differences in provision of students.

30) 2003 - Increasing Diversity and Persistent Segregation: Challenges of Educating Minority and Immigrant Children in Urban America

Authors: Zhou, Min, & Logan, John R.

An overview of America's racial and ethnic composition from the 2000 Census and the implications of increasing diversity for urban…

31) 2002 - Why Does It Take a Village? The Mediation of Neighborhood Effects on Educational Achievement

Authors: Ainsworth, James W.

Identifies which neighborhood characteristics influence educational achievement and what mechanisms mediate those associations

32) 2002 - Preservation or Transformation: Where's the Real Educational Discourse on Diversity?

Authors: Chang, Mitchell J.

How overlooking critical areas of diversity-related campus initiatives may preserve the very system that diversity advocates seek to transform.

33) 2002 - Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities

Authors: Clotfelter, Charles T.

Document and measure the extent of interracial contact within schools.

34) 2002 - Special Education or Racial Segregation: Understanding Variation in the Representation of Black Students in Educable Mentally Handicapped Programs

Authors: Eitle, Tamela McNulty

Studies the effects of local racial/political-economic structures, school district characteristics and school desegregation politics on the number and proportion of…