- What K-12 indicators predict postsecondary STEM success?
- To what extent do K-12 indicators of postsecondary STEM success differ for Hispanic and non-Hispanic students?
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Exploring the Foundations of the Future STEM Workforce: K-12 Indicators of Postsecondary STEM Success
Academic Achievement Trajectories of Adolescents from Mexican and East Asian Immigrant Families in the United States
What are the growth patterns of academic achievement of adolescent students from immigrant families?
The Geography of Inequality: Why Separate Means Unequal in American Public Schools
Examines what kinds of schools children of different races and ethnicities are attending and how various school characteristic are associated with overall school performance.
Hate Crimes on Campus: Racial/Ethnic Diversity and Campus Safety
Examines whether the racial/ethnic diversity of a college or university is related to the rate of racially/ethnically motivated hate crimes on campus.
Live and Learn? Contradictions in Residential Patterns and School Demographics
To what degree do Atlanta-area racial and ethnic segregation patterns in public secondary schools reflect those in residential catchment areas?
Coleman Revisited: School Segregation, Peers, and Frog Ponds
Investigates whether peer effects are the reason that students from minority-concentrated schools attain less education than students from white-concentrated schools.
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Collegiate Cognitive Gains: A Multilevel Analysis of Institutional Influences on Learning and its Equitable Distribution
Addresses whether racial/ethnic inequalities in academic performance that are present at college entry are moderated, exacerbated, or maintained during college and whether institutional attributes are associated with student learning.
Ability Grouping Practices in Elementary School and African American/Hispanic Achievement
Examines the impact of ability grouping practices on the achievement gains among African Americans and Hispanics during elementary school.
School Effects: Examining the Race Gap in Mathematics Achievement
Relationship between school racial composition and the race-based gaps in mathematics achievement.
School Composition and Hispanic Achievement
Examine the effect of Hispanic concentration on Hispanic educational outcomes.
The Effects of School Racial and Ethnic Composition on Academic Achievement During Adolescence
The effects of school racial and ethnic composition on students’ academic achievement in the U.S..
Can Reducing School Segregation Close the Achievement Gap?
How do racially diverse schools affect student achievement?
The Race Gap in High School Reading Achievement: Why School Racial Composition Still Matters
How is school racial composition related to reading achievement?
The Effect of Childhood Segregation on Minority Academic Performance at Selective Colleges
Effects of housing and school segregation during childhood on academic performance in college.
Brown Over "Other White": Mexican Americans' Legal Arguments and Litigation Strategy in School Desegregation Lawsuits
Why and with what results did Mexican American lawyers use arguments and strategies that did not draw on the constitutional substance of Brown?
Who's Left Behind? Immigrant Children in High and Low LEP Schools
Examines differences in the provision of educational services to LEP students across schools with varying proportions of LEP student enrollment
Addressing Institutional Inequities in Education: The Case of Advanced Placement Courses in California
Evaluate equality of opportunities that students of different races/ethnicities/social classes & communities have to participate in AP courses in CA.
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Firsthand accounts of how segregation and apartheid continues in America’s inner city schools and how teachers at those schools persist against the odds.
Fifty Years after Brown: New Evidence of the Impact of School Racial Composition on Student Outcomes
Expand the discussion of the impact of desegregation beyond the traditional test measures & including racial groups that have been largely ignored.
The Transformation of School Desegregation in San Jose, California (1985-2003)
Segregation & desegregation experience of Mexican American students & how desegregation remedies promoted or hindered their access to equal education.
The Race Gap in Student Achievement Scores: Longitudinal Evidence from a Racially Diverse School District
Examine when and how the Black-White and Hispanic-White test score gaps develop in the early elementary grades in a California school district.
Schools' Racial Mix, Students' Optimism, and the Black-White and Latino-White Achievement Gaps
How schools’ racial and ethnic mix of students and teachers influences black, white, and Latino students’ expectations, aspirations and attitudes.
Multiple Facets of Inequity in Racial and Ethnic Achievement Gaps
Examine how inequitable the racial achievement gaps are and how much progress towards equity was made through changes in achievement gaps.
50 Years after Brown: Segregation in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Example of a segregated metropolitan region that produced a segregated school system & defied multiple efforts at significant school desegregation.
Race and Academic Achievement in Racially Diverse High Schools: Opportunity and Stratification
Assess whether racially diverse high schools offer equal education and opportunities to students of different racial/ethnic groups
The Schooling of Children of Immigrants: Contextual Effects on the Educational Attainment of the Second Generation
Examine the effect of the class & ethnic composition of the schools that second-generation youths attend in early adolescence on attainment & drop-out
The Effects of Racial Dissonance on the Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem of Hispanic Middle School Students
Assess the relevance of Rosenberg’s theory of racial dissonance with Hispanic middle school students.
Peer Effects on Student Achievement: Evidence from Chile
Estimates of peer effects on student achievement, using a 1997 census of eight-grade achievement in Chile.
Beyond Black and White: The Present and Future of Multiracial Friendship Segregation
Examines student friendship patterns across racial/ethnic groups in multiracial schools
Texas Public Schools: Ethnic/Racial, Socioeconomic, and Linguistic Composition of Student Bodies and Academic Test Performance
What is the relationship between student body’s ethnic/racial, socioeconomic and linguistic composition with academic performance?
Segregation, 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?
The New Segregation
Overview of US national demographic trends in school segregation and the results of research on immigrant children from Puerto Rico.
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.
Suburban Racial Change and Suburban School Segregation, 1987-1995
The relationship between growing minority enrollments in suburban schools and changes in segregation levels in suburban schools.
Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools: A Special Report from the Harvard Project on School Desegregation
Report on school segregation changes after the 1990s.
Ethnic Diversity and Creativity in Small Groups
Test the value of in-diversity hypothesis (that ethnic diversity produces tangible, positive effects on organizational outcome).
Why Desegregate? The Effect of School Desegregation on Adult Occupational Desegregation of African Americans, Whites and Hispanics
Studies the relationship between attending desegregated high schools and desegregated adult workplaces.
Off The Track
Impact of current tracking practices and impacts. Showing how these practices are harming millions of students and our society.