Conceptual and methodological problems related to theorizing school compositional effect.
Current Selections
ClearSegregation, Desegregation, and Integration of Chicano Students: Old and New Realities
1) What is the prevalence and effects of Chicano segregation?
2) What is the history of Chicano segregation and racism towards Chicanos?
3) What are the contemporary issues in Chicano segregation? 4) What has been or can be done to integrate Chicano students?
School Desegregation Policies and Judicial Trends in the United States
Historical overview of policies and judicial decisions concerning school segregation in the US, focusing on segregation of Hispanic/Latino students.
Maximizing the Benefits of Student Diversity: Lessons from School Desegregation Research
Summarizes research on effects of desegregation in elementary and secondary schools
When and How School Desegregation Improves Intergroup Relations: The Relationship Between Social Psychology and Social Policy
Analyze studies that focus on when and how does school desegregation improve intergroup relations?
Teachers' Perceptions and Expectations and The Black-White Test Score Gap
Ways in which teachers’ and students’ behaviors might be causes/consequences of racially disparate perceptions and expectations regarding achievement.
Affirmative Action in the Classroom: Diversity Effects on Student Outcomes: Social Science Evidence
Impact of diversity on student learning in higher education
The Economics of School Reform
Analysis of school reform in the US.
Detracking: The Social Construction of Ability, Cultural Politics, and Resistance to Reform
Explores how conceptions of intelligence intervene in efforts to detrack schools.
Introduction and Overview: The Role of Social Science in School Desegregation Efforts
Overview of the role of social science in school desegregation
Stepping Over the Color Line: African-American Students in White Suburban Schools
A complex conversation about the separate but unequal situation in many schools today, resulting in a call for a re-examination of school choice policies across the country to bring about more racial and social class integration
Brown vs. Board of Education
History of Brown v. Board of Education
High Standards in a Tracked System of Schooling: For Which Students and with What Educational Supports?
Equitable opportunity for all children to learn challenging curricula. Changing limiting beliefs of teacher’s methods.
Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law
To describe and explain conclusions about desegregation policy, especially to show how these viewpoints have evolved from legal doctrines, social and science research, and extensive case experience
Two Cities' Tracking and Within-School Segregation
Examined how grouping practices can create within-school segregation that discriminates against Black and Latino students.
Review of Research on School Desegregation's Impact on Elementary and Secondary School Students
Review of the literature on the impact of school desegregation. Focus on methodological and other problems that typify work in this area.
The Continuing Significance of Desegregation: School Racial Composition and African American Inclusion in American Society
Summarizes research on the long term consequences of desegregation.
The Promise of Brown and the Reality of Academic Groups: The Tracks of My Tears
Examines the antecedents of academic tracking and ability grouping in America and reviews the justification for these concepts in public schools.
Multicultural Education: Its Effects on Students' Racial and Gender Role Attitudes
Describes research on the effects of multicultural education on the perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs of K-12 students
School Desegregation and Intergroup Relations: A Review of the Literature
Assess the current state of literature on desegregation and intergroup relations
The Social Consequences of Growing Up in a Poor Neighborhood
Determine how much effect the social composition of a neighborhood or school has on children’s life chances.
The Social and Academic Consequences of School Desegregation
Reviews the literature on long term social consequences of school desegregation, & how to opearte desegregated schools effectively.
Ability Grouping and its Alternatives: Must We Track?
What is the evidence about the achievement effects of ability grouping? What are the alternatives?
Instructional Grouping in the Classroom
Some types of instructional grouping that contribute to more positive academic and affective outcomes for students.
Desegregation and Education Productivity
Comparison of the effects of desegregation with those of other factors in the process of school learning that have been recently synthesized.
Research on Minority Achievement in Desegregated Schools.
Analyze research on minority achievement in desegregated schools by separating genuine effects of desegregation from the false effects.
Desegregation and Black Achievement: A Review of the Research
Review of research on desegregation and black achievement