Authors: Reardon, Sean F., & Firebaugh, Glenn
Derive and evaluate a set of six multigroup segregation indices.
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2) 2002 - Integrating Neighborhoods, Segregating Schools: The Retreat from School Desegregation in the South, 1990-2000
Authors: Reardon, Sean F., & Yun, John T.
Examines the relationship between residential segregation, public school segregation, and private school enrollment in the South in the 1990s.
3) 2002 - What Do Parents Want from Schools? Evidence from the Internet
Authors: Schneider, Mark, & Buckley, Jack
The aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of schools.
4) 2002 - School Composition and Peer Effects
Authors: Thrupp, Martin, Lauder, Hugh, & Robinson, Tony
Conceptual and methodological problems related to theorizing school compositional effect.
5) 2002 - Effects of High School Course-Taking and Other Variables on Choice of Science and Mathematics College Majors
Authors: Trusty, Jerry
To examine the effects of taking particular academically intensive science and mathematics high school courses on choice of science and…
6) 2002 - Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration of Chicano Students: Old and New Realities
Authors: Valencia, Richard A., & Donato, Ruben
1) What is the prevalence and effects of Chicano segregation? 2) What is the history of Chicano segregation and racism…
7) 2002 - Immigration and African American Educational Opportunity: The Transformation of Minority Schools
Authors: Van Hook, Jennifer
Assesses the extent to which African Americans versus non-Hispanic Whites attend schools with children with limited English proficiency (LEP).
8) 2002 - Short Circuits or Superconductors? Effects of Group Composition on High-Achieving Students' Science Assessment Performance
Authors: Webb, Noreen, Mari Nemer, Kariane, & Zuniga, Stephen
Analyze the group processes intensely in order to understand the impact of group composition on group functioning & the scores…
11) 2001 - The Positive Educational Effects of Racial Diversity on Campus
Authors: Chang, Mitchell J.
Link between diversity and positive educational outcomes.
12) 2001 - Are Whites Still Fleeing? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987-1996
Authors: Clotfelter, Charles T.
Examines recent trends in enrollment and racial composition in urban public schools. Does desegregation contribute to white enrollment losses?
13) 2001 - Does Race Matter in Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans
Authors: Emerson, Michael O., Chai, Karen T., & Yancey, George
Examines whites' stated residential preferences,not just for African American neighbors but also for Hispanics and Asians, to determine relationships between…
14) 2001 - A Diagnostic Analysis of Black-White GPA Disparities
Authors: Ferguson, Ronald F.
Examine how race, family background, attitudes, and behaviors are related to achievement
15) 2001 - Why Public Schools Lose Teachers?
Authors: Hanushek, Eric, Kain, John, & Rivkin, Steven
Why Public Schools Lose Teachers? Understanding of the effects of salary and other school factors on teacher transitions.
16) 2001 - Students' Attachment and Academic Engagement: The Role of Race and Ethnicity
Authors: Johnson, Monica Kirkpatrick, Crosnoe, Robert, & Elder Jr., Glen H.
Examines relationship between race and school attachment and engagement.
17) 2001 - Is Diversity a Compelling Educational Interest? Evidence from Louisville
Authors: Kurlaender, Michal, & Yun, John T.
Evaluates how diversity affects the learning of White, Latino, and Asians students.
18) 2001 - The New Segregation
Authors: Laosa, Luis
Overview of US national demographic trends in school segregation and the results of research on immigrant children from Puerto Rico.
19) 2001 - School Desegregation Policies and Judicial Trends in the United States
Authors: Laosa, Luis
Historical overview of policies and judicial decisions concerning school segregation in the US, focusing on segregation of Hispanic/Latino students.
21) 2001 - Race, Class, and Tournament Track Mobility
Authors: Lucas, Samuel R., & Good, Aaron D.
Examine pattern of track mobility. Do all groups follow the same pattern or are there different mobility regimes?
22) 2001 - Subverting Swann: First- and Second Generation Segregation in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Authors: Mickelson, Roslyn A.
Effects of First and Second Generation segregation on the academic outcomes of CMS students.
23) 2001 - Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in America
Authors: Moody, James
Tests whether school organization affects friendship segregation in a national sample of adolescents friendship networks.
24) 2001 - Relationship Between School Composition and Characteristics of School Process and their Effect on Mathematics Achievement
Authors: Opdenakker, Marie-Christine, & Van Damme, Jan
Explores the relationship between school composition and characteristics of school process and investigates their effects on mathematics achievement.
25) 2001 - Diversity and Legal Education: Student Experiences in Leading Law Schools
Authors: Orfield, Gary, & Whitla, Dean
Explore the impact of diversity by asking students how it has influenced their educational experiences.
26) 2001 - Suburban Racial Change and Suburban School Segregation, 1987-1995
Authors: Reardon, Sean F., & Yun, John T.
The relationship between growing minority enrollments in suburban schools and changes in segregation levels in suburban schools.
27) 2001 - Maximizing the Benefits of Student Diversity: Lessons from School Desegregation Research
Authors: Schofield, Janet Ward
Summarizes research on effects of desegregation in elementary and secondary schools
28) 2001 - When and How School Desegregation Improves Intergroup Relations: The Relationship Between Social Psychology and Social Policy
Authors: Schofield, Janet Ward, & Eurich-Fulcer, Rebecca
Analyze studies that focus on when and how does school desegregation improve intergroup relations?
29) 2001 - Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Classroom: Does it Promotes Student Learning?
Authors: Terenzini, Patrick, Cabrera, Alberto, Colbeck, Carol, Bjorklund, Stefani, & Parente, John
Examines direct effect of classroom diversity on academic/intellectual outcomes and moderation of these by collaborative instructional approaches.
30) 2001 - Is Campus Racial Diversity Correlated with Educational Benefits?
Authors: Wood, Thomas, & Sherman, Malcolm
Refute the contrary claim that racial diversity confers educational benefits for all admitted students.
31) 2000 - White Enrollment in Nonpublic Schools, Public School Racial Composition, and Student Performance
Authors: Bankston III, Carl, & Caldas, Stephen J.
Is enrollment of whites in a nonpublic system associated with racial composition? Does it makes a difference for public school…
32) 2000 - Families or Schools? Explaining the Convergence in White and Black Academic Performance
Authors: Cook, Michael, & Evans, William
What has caused the convergence in White and Black academic performance over the past twenty years? Are changes in families…
33) 2000 - Tracking Financial Aid and Persistence of Women, Minority, and Needy Students in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
Authors: Fenske, Robert H., Porter, John D., & DuBrock, Caryl P.
1) What are the persistence patterns of the special student populations compared to other populations in the same institutional setting?…
34) 2000 - The Continuing Struggle of African Americans for the Power to Make Real Educational Choices
Authors: Fuller, Howard
Studies school choice for African Americans.
35) 2000 - Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation
Authors: Hoxby, Caroline
Identify the effects of peers using sources of idisyncratic sources of variation, such as changes in the gender and racial…
36) 2000 - The New Economic School Segregation
Authors: Kahlenberg, Richard D.
Explore how can socioeconomic integration promotes racial integration in schools.
37) 2000 - School Desegregation, Academic Attainment and Earnings
Authors: Rivkin, Steven
Whether desegregation programs have raised lifetime earnings for blacks, through interracial contact or improvements in school quality.
38) 1999 - High School Racial Composition: Balancing Excellence and Equity
Authors: Brown-Jeffy, Shelly
Addresses the relationship between school racial composition and educational outcomes.
39) 1999 - Campus Diversity and the New Economy
Authors: Carnevale, Anthony
Link between diversity and economics. Relationship between diverse campuses and diverse workplaces.
40) 1999 - Ethnic Segregation in Arizona Charter Schools
Authors: Cobb, Casey, & Glass, Gene
Is there evidence that charter schools are "skimming" White students?
41) 1999 - Regression Analysis in the Wilmington Case
Authors: De Leeuw, Jan, Lew, Vivian, Bentow, Stan, & McKeever, Matt
Discusses the shortcomings of stepwise regression analyses in educational studies and examines the application of regression analyses by expert witnesses.
42) 1999 - Expert Report of Patricia Gurin-Gratz et. al. v. Bollinger et. al.
Authors: Gurin, Patricia
Expert report from Gratz and Grutter
43) 1999 - Trading in Futures: Why Markets in Education Don't Work
Authors: Lauder, Hugh, & Hughes, David
Individual and school level variables effect on achievement.
45) 1999 - Poor School Funding, Child Poverty and Mathematics Achievement
Authors: Payne, Kevin, & Biddle, Bruce
New and better design for research on the net achievement effects of poor school funding and child poverty in America.
47) 1999 - Organizational Context for Student Achievement: The Case of Student Racial Compositions
Authors: Schiff, Jorden, Firestone, William, & Young, John
Exploring the relationship between school desegregation (race, SES, and school racial compostion) and student achievement and self-concept.
48) 1998 - The Inequality of Separation: Racial Composition of Schools and Academic Achievement
Authors: Caldas, Stephen J., & Bankston III, Carl
1. Do African American students show significantly lower scores than other students on the Graduation Exit Examination (GEE)? 2. If…
49) 1998 - Teacher-Student Interactions and Race in Integrated Classrooms
Authors: Casteel, Clifton A.
Are Black and White students treated differently by White teachers on the basis of race in integrated classrooms?
50) 1998 - Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment
Authors: Ciotti, Paul
Examines the Kansas City desegregation plan