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1) 1994 - Why Desegregate? The Effect of School Desegregation on Adult Occupational Desegregation of African Americans, Whites and Hispanics

Authors: Braddock II, Jomills Henry, Dawkins, Marvin P., & Trent, William
Studies the relationship between attending desegregated high schools and desegregated adult workplaces.

2) 1994 - The Continuing Significance of Desegregation: School Racial Composition and African American Inclusion in American Society

Authors: Dawkins, Marvin P., & Braddock II, Jomills Henry
Summarizes research on the long term consequences of desegregation.

3) 1994 - The Promise of Brown and the Reality of Academic Groups: The Tracks of My Tears

Authors: Donelan, Richarde, Neal, Gerald, & Jones, Deneese
Examines the antecedents of academic tracking and ability grouping in America and reviews the justification for these concepts in public…

4) 1994 - Off The Track

Authors: Dornbusch, Sanford
Impact of current tracking practices and impacts. Showing how these practices are harming millions of students and our society.

6) 1994 - Winter Setback: The Racial Composition of Schools and Learning to Read

Authors: Entwisle, Doris, & Alexander, Karl
How the racial composition of schools affects children's cognitive growth during the first two years of school for youngsters in…

8) 1994 - Choosing and Leaving Science in Highly Selective Institutions

Authors: Strenta, A. Christopher; Elliott, Rogers; Adair, Russell; Matier, Michael; Scott, Jannah
Does women's superiority in overall college GPA apply to all courses, including science courses, or does it vary with curricular…

9) 1994 - Perpetuation Theory and the Long-Term Effects of School Desegregation

Authors: Wells, Amy Stuart, & Crain, Robert L.
Long-term effects of school desegregation on the life chances of African American students.

10) 1993 - Alternative Uses of Ability Grouping in Secondary Schools: Can We Bring High-Quality Instruction to Low-Ability Classes?

Authors: Gamoran, Adam
Explores possible instances of high-quality instruction in low-ability classes.

11) 1993 - Effects of School Restructuring on the Achievement and Engagement of Middle-Grade Students

Authors: Lee, Valerie E., & Smith, Julia
How differences in the organization of schools influence the learning and behavior of students who attend the schools?

13) 1992 - Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education

Authors: Boozer, Michael A., Krueger, Alan B., & Wolkon, Shari
Analyzes racial disparities in school quality since the 1950s and the implications of differential school quality for labor market outcomes…

14) 1992 - Summer Setback: Race, Poverty, School Composition, and Mathematics Achievement in the First Two Years of School

Authors: Entwisle, Doris, & Alexander, Karl
Test score changes over the summer when school is closed to estimate "home" influences.

15) 1992 - The Variable Effects of High School Tracking

Authors: Gamoran, Adam
Analyzes how the structure of the tracking system is related to differences in achievement.

16) 1992 - The Organization of Students for Instruction in the Middle School

Authors: Hallinan, Maureen T.
The structure of tracking systems and the process of assigning students to tracks for instruction at a critical point in…

17) 1992 - Middle School Ability Grouping and Student Achievement in Science and Mathematics

Authors: Hoffer, Thomas
Effects of middle school ability grouping on cognitive achievements in mathematics and science.

18) 1992 - The Effects of Educational Tracking on the Social Mobility of African Americans

Authors: Kershaw, Terry
Studies the long term effects of tracking on opportunities for upward social mobility by race.

19) 1992 - The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Segregation on the Achievement Gap in California High Schools

Authors: Rumberger, Russell W., & Willms, Douglas
Examines the extent and impact of racial and ethnic segregation in CA HS during the 1988-1989 school years.

20) 1991 - Multicultural Education: Its Effects on Students' Racial and Gender Role Attitudes

Authors: Banks, James A.
Describes research on the effects of multicultural education on the perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs of K-12 students

21) 1991 - The Organizational Context of Tracking in Schools

Authors: Kilgore, Sally B.
How do the organizational characteristics of schools affect the tracking system?

22) 1991 - How Much Does a High School's Racial and Socioeconomic Mix Affect Graduation and Teenage Fertility Rates?

Authors: Mayer, Susan
Examine the potential impact of racial and socioeconomic desegregation of schools on students' chances of dropping out of high schools…

23) 1991 - School Desegregation and Intergroup Relations: A Review of the Literature

Authors: Schofield, Janet Ward
Assess the current state of literature on desegregation and intergroup relations

24) 1991 - Desegregation and the Stability of White Enrollments: A School-Level Analysis, 1968-84

Authors: Smock, Pamela J., & Wilson, Franklin D.
Is the alteration of a school's racial composition during desegregation associated with the subsequent withdrawal of White pupils? In relation…

25) 1990 - White Flight and White Return in Norfolk: A Test of Prediction

Authors: Carr, Leslie G., & Zeigler, Donald J.
Compares prediction of continuing white flight In Norfolk to what actually happened there during the 1980s.

26) 1990 - The Causes of Student Achievement

Authors: Chubb, John E., & Moe, Terry M.
Compare the influence of family background, school financial resources, and other possible causes of student achievement.

27) 1990 - The Social Consequences of Growing Up in a Poor Neighborhood

Authors: Jencks, Christopher, & Mayer, Susan
Determine how much effect the social composition of a neighborhood or school has on children's life chances.

28) 1989 - Social-Psychological Processes that Perpetuate Racial Segregation: The Relationship Between School and Employment Desegregation

Authors: Braddock II, Jomills Henry, & McPartland, James M.
Study processes that perpetuate segregation.

29) 1989 - Finding Niches: Desegregated Students Sixteen Years Later

Authors: Crain, Robert L., Hawes, Jennifer, Miller, Randi, & Peichert, Janet
Compares educational attainment and present attitudes of young black adults who did and did not participate in a desegregation program.

30) 1989 - A Multilevel Model of the Social Distribution of High School Achievement

Authors: Lee, Valerie E., & Bryk, Anthony
Why some schools are better able to induce academic outcomes among a broad social and racial distribution of students.

31) 1988 - The Social and Academic Consequences of School Desegregation

Authors: Braddock II, Jomills Henry, & McPartland, James M.
Reviews the literature on long term social consequences of school desegregation, & how to opearte desegregated schools effectively.

32) 1988 - Does School Desegregation Policy Stimulate Residential Integration?

Authors: Clark, William
Relationship between schools and housing and specifically the relocation behavior of minority households.

33) 1988 - Curriculum Tracking as Mediating the Social Distribution of High School Achievement

Authors: Lee, Valerie E., & Bryk, Anthony
Differences in how tracking decisions are made. Pattern of students' course enrollments within academic tracks.

34) 1987 - Girls' Academic Achievements: Single-Sex Versus Coeducational Schools in Australia

Authors: Carpenter, Peter, & Hayden, Martin
Examines whether type of secondary school attended (sex composition) affects girls' academic achievements net of other relevant factors.

35) 1987 - The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities

Authors: Gamoran, Adam
Differences between and within schools in the allocation of opportunities for learning.

36) 1987 - Ability Grouping and Sex Differences in Mathematics Achievement

Authors: Hallinan, Maureen T., & Sorensen, Aage
Investigate the effects of ability grouping and sex differences on the mathematics achievement of elementary school students.

37) 1987 - Opportunities and Constraints: Black-White Differences in the Formation of Interracial Friendships

Authors: Hallinan, Maureen T., & Texeira, Ruy
Studies the effects of classroom climate, instructional organization, and classroom racial composition on cross-race friendliness

38) 1987 - Effects of Ability Grouping on Student Achievement

Authors: Kulik, James, & Kulik, Chen-Li
What are the effects of ability grouping in the typical study?

39) 1987 - Ability Grouping and its Alternatives: Must We Track?

Authors: Slavin, Robert E.
What is the evidence about the achievement effects of ability grouping? What are the alternatives?

40) 1987 - Instructional Grouping in the Classroom

Authors: Ward, Beatrice
Some types of instructional grouping that contribute to more positive academic and affective outcomes for students.

41) 1986 - Cross-Group Contact Opportunities: Impact on Interpersonal Relationships in Desegregated Middle Schools

Authors: Damico, Sandra B., & Sparks, Christopher
Examines the effects of school organizational structure on students' interracial and cross-sex communication patterns

42) 1986 - Classroom Intellectual Composition and Academic Achievement

Authors: Dar, Yehezkel, & Resh, Nura
Test if the intellectual level of the classroom affects the quality of learning environments.

43) 1986 - The Micro-Structure of School Desegregation

Authors: Granovetter, Mark
Explores the structure of social relations among participants in desegregated settings.

44) 1986 - Some of My Best Friends are Black: Interracial Friendship and Whites' Racial Attitudes

Authors: Jackman, Mary, & Crane, Marie
Examines the tenets and assumptions of contact theory.

46) 1985 - Cooperative Learning and Intergroup Relations

Authors: Slavin, Robert E.
Examine changes in classroom organization and student friendship patterns when cooperative learning methods are used in the desegregated classroom

47) 1985 - School Desegregation and Black Achievement: An Integrative Review

Authors: Wortman, Paul M., & Bryant, Fred B.
Assesses the social science research on the effects of desegregation on Black students’ achievement to provide a magnitude and direction…

48) 1984 - The Evidence on Desegregation and Black Achievement

Authors: Armor, David J.
The impact of desegregation on Black student achievement.

49) 1984 - A Long-Term View of School Desegregation: Some Recent Studies of Graduates as Adults

Authors: Braddock II, Jomills Henry, Crain, Robert L., & McPartland, James M.
Evidence that school desegregation leads to desegregation in several areas of adult life.

50) 1984 - What Have Black Children Gained Academically from School Integration?: Examination of the Meta-analytic Evidence

Authors: Cook, Thomas
Several meta-analyses by a panel of social scientists who examined 19 studies about school desegregation's effects on the academic achievement…