Authors: Dutton, Susanne E., Singer, Jefferson A., & Devlin, Ann Sloan
Examine the impact of a school's racial make-up on its students.
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2) 1998 - When Desegregation Reduces Interracial Contact: A Class Size Paradox for Weak Ties
Authors: Feld, Scott, & Carter, William
Desegregation is sometimes different from and inconsistent with maximizing interracial contact.
3) 1998 - Teachers' Perceptions and Expectations and The Black-White Test Score Gap
Authors: Ferguson, Ronald F.
Ways in which teachers' and students' behaviors might be causes/consequences of racially disparate perceptions and expectations regarding achievement.
4) 1998 - Persistence in Science of High-Ability Minority Students: Results of a Longitudinal Study
Authors: Grandy, Jerilee
The purpose of this study was to construct a comprehensive model to investigate why some high-ability minority students follow through…
5) 1998 - Affirmative Action in the Classroom: Diversity Effects on Student Outcomes: Social Science Evidence
Authors: Hallinan, Maureen T.
Impact of diversity on student learning in higher education
6) 1998 - The Economics of School Reform
Authors: Hoxby, Caroline
Analysis of school reform in the US.
7) 1998 - Tell Me With Whom You're Learning and I'll Tell You How Much You've Learned: Mixed-Ability Versus Same-Ability Grouping in Mathematics
Authors: Linchevski, Liora, & Kutscher, Bilha
The effects of teaching mathematics in a mixed-ability setting on student's achievements and teachers' attitudes.
8) 1998 - The Tracking and Ability Grouping Debate
Authors: Loveless, Tom
What have we actually learned about tracking and ability grouping?
9) 1998 - Race and General Cognitive Ability: The Myth of Diminishing Returns to Education
Authors: Myerson, Joel, Rank, Mark, Raines, Fredric, & Schnitzler, Mark
The impact of education on racial differences in general cognitive ability.
12) 1998 - Equity Issues in Collaborative Group Assessment: Group Composition and Performance
Authors: Webb, Noreen, Nemer, Kariane, Chizhik, Alexander, & Sugrue, Bredna
Investigated the effects of group ability composition on group processes and outcomes in science performance assessments.
13) 1998 - Segregated Placement Patterns of Students with Disabilities in Three States
Authors: Weikart, Lynne
Examine the placement patterns in three states that place nearly half of their students with disabilities in separate classrooms.
14) 1997 - The American School Dilemma: Race and Scholastic Performance
Authors: Bankston III, Carl, & Caldas, Stephen J.
How race and the racial composition of schools are related to academic achievement.
16) 1997 - Dr. Armor's Regressions
Authors: De Leeuw, Jan
Critique of statistical analyses used in desegregation research by Dr. Armor, as well as by well-known expert witnesses and researchers…
18) 1997 - Linking Diversity and Educational Purpose: How the Diversity of the Faculty and Student Body May Impact the Classroom Environment and Student Development
Authors: Hurtado, Sylvia
Examines the consequences of having a diverse student body and diverse faculty on student outcomes at predominantly white, four year…
19) 1997 - Course-Taking, Equity, and Mathematics Learning: Testing the Constrained Curriculum Hypothesis in U.S. Secondary Schools
Authors: Lee, Valerie E., Croniger, Robert, & Smith, Julia
How the organization of the mathematics curriculum in U.S. high schools affects how much students learn in that subject.
20) 1997 - How High School Organization Influences the Equitable Distribution of Learning in Mathematics and Science
Authors: Lee, Valerie E., Smith, Julia B., & Croninger, Robert G.
How social and academic organization of schools affects learning and its distribution?
21) 1997 - Detracking: The Social Construction of Ability, Cultural Politics, and Resistance to Reform
Authors: Oakes, Jeannie, Wells, Amy Stuart, Jone, Makeba, & Datnow, Amanda
Explores how conceptions of intelligence intervene in efforts to detrack schools.
22) 1997 - Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools: A Special Report from the Harvard Project on School Desegregation
Authors: Orfield, Gary, Bachmeier, Mark D., James, David R., & Eitle, Tamela
Report on school segregation changes after the 1990s.
23) 1997 - Introduction and Overview: The Role of Social Science in School Desegregation Efforts
Authors: Taylor, William L.
Overview of the role of social science in school desegregation
24) 1997 - Outcomes of School Desegregation: Findings from Longitudinal Research
Authors: Trent, William
Important noncognitive outcomes of school desegregation.
25) 1997 - Stepping Over the Color Line: African-American Students in White Suburban Schools
Authors: Wells, Amy Stuart, & Crain, Robert L.
A complex conversation about the separate but unequal situation in many schools today, resulting in a call for a re-examination…
27) 1996 - Tracking and Transitions Through the Middle Grades: Channeling Educational Trajectories
Authors: Dauber, Susan L., Alexander, Karl L., & Entwisle, Doris R.
Examines sources of influence on inner-city students' initial middle school placements in English and mathematics and continuity and change in…
28) 1996 - Relation of Parental Involvement, Empowerment, and School Traits to Student Academic Performance
Authors: Griffith, James
What is the relation of parental involvement in education to student academic performance? What is the relation of parent perceptions…
29) 1996 - Does School Quality Explain the Recent Black/White Wage Trend?
Authors: Grogger, Jeff
Whether educational quality can explain the break in the trend toward black/white wage equality.
31) 1996 - Brown vs. Board of Education
Authors: Hochschild, Jennifer
History of Brown v. Board of Education
32) 1996 - Ethnic Diversity and Creativity in Small Groups
Authors: McLeod, Poppy, Lobel, Sharon, & Cox Jr., Taylor H.
Test the value of in-diversity hypothesis (that ethnic diversity produces tangible, positive effects on organizational outcome).
33) 1996 - Notes: An Evidentiary Framework for Diversity as a Compelling Interest in Higher Education
Authors: Robinson, Kimberly J.
How should courts address diversity in higher education?
34) 1996 - High School Seniors' Instructional Experiences in Science and Math
Authors: U.S. Department of Education
To what extent are high school seniors' instructional experiences affected by their social backgrounds and by the schools they attend?
35) 1996 - High Standards in a Tracked System of Schooling: For Which Students and with What Educational Supports?
Authors: Weinstein, Rhona
Equitable opportunity for all children to learn challenging curricula. Changing limiting beliefs of teacher's methods.
36) 1996 - The Effect of Childhood Interracial Contact on Adult Antiblack Prejudice
Authors: Wood, Peter B., & Sonleitner, Nancy
Does desegregation have any measureable effect on racial prejudice? Does childhood interracial contact have any lasting effect on adult prejudice?
37) 1995 - Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law
Authors: Armor, David J.
To describe and explain conclusions about desegregation policy, especially to show how these viewpoints have evolved from legal doctrines, social…
38) 1995 - A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention. III. Gender Differences in Student Performance and Attitudes
Authors: Felder, Richard, Felder, Gary, Mauney, Meredith Charles Hamrin Jr., & Jacquelin Dietz, E.
Why did the women in the study- whose qualifications were arguably better than those of the men when they entered…
39) 1995 - An Organizational Analysis of the Effects of Ability Grouping
Authors: Gamoran, Adam, Nystrand, Martin, Berends, Mark, & LePore, Paul C.
Examines variation in the quality and effects of instructional discourse across ability groups.
40) 1995 - Individual and Organizational Predictors of High School Track Placement
Authors: Jones, James D., Vanfossen, Beth E., & Ensminger, Margaret E.
What is the importance of school characteristics in the determination of track placement?
41) 1995 - All Children Can Learn- The Unmet Promise: A Study of Ability Grouping and Tracking in North Carolina Schools
Authors: Kretovics, Joe, Noblit, George, Rogers, Dwight, Awsumb, Catherine, McCadden, Brian, & Villenas, Sofia
Analyzes instructional grouping practices in NC.
42) 1995 - An Analysis of Elementary and Secondary School Choice
Authors: Lankford, R.H., Lee, E.S., & Wyckoff, J.H.
How characteristics of students, their families, and schools affect the school choices made across public, religious, and independent schools.
43) 1995 - Classroom Structure, Functioning, and Student Outcomes: An Organizational-Cultural Approach to Classroom Research
Authors: Lee, She-Ahn
The relations between classroom organization characteristics and student education outcomes, with a focus on the classroom functioning mechanism.
44) 1995 - Two Cities' Tracking and Within-School Segregation
Authors: Oakes, Jeannie
Examined how grouping practices can create within-school segregation that discriminates against Black and Latino students.
45) 1995 - Matchmaking: The Dynamics of High School Tracking Decisions
Authors: Oakes, Jeannie, & Guiton, Gretchen
Examines how educators frame tracking decisions.
46) 1995 - Review of Research on School Desegregation's Impact on Elementary and Secondary School Students
Authors: Schofield, Janet Ward
Review of the literature on the impact of school desegregation. Focus on methodological and other problems that typify work in…
48) 1995 - Racial and Economic Segregation and Educational Outcomes: One Tale-Two Cities
Authors: Yancey, William, & Saporito, Salvatore
Racial & economic segregation of public schools in Philadelphia and Houston.
49) 1994 - Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education: A Continuing Debate
Authors: Artiles, Alfredo, & Trent, Stanley
Review critically the minority overrepresentation problem from a historical perspective.
50) 1994 - Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities
Authors: Borjas, George J.
Investigates the link between ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods