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Exposure to School and Residential Diversity: A New Test of Perpetuation Theory

-Early exposure to diversity in both neighborhoods and schools is significantly related to neighborhood diversity in both early- and mid-adulthood and for both white and black students. However, the strength of this diminishes over time.

-Nonwhite students were more likely to experience diversity in their schools and neighborhoods as well as higher levels of poverty and economic deprivation.

-They find that students generally lived in more diverse neighborhoods five years after graduation than they did in high school, and they lived in even more diverse neighborhoods 13 years after graduation.

-Social advantage was positively related to living in a more diverse neighborhood 5 years after graduation.

– Students who were exposed to higher levels of ethnic diversity in high school were more likely to live in neighborhoods with higher levels of ethnic diversity 5 years after graduation.

-Nonwhite students were more likely to live in more diverse neighborhoods 13 years after graduation when compared to white students.

-They found that the ethnic diversity of students high school neighborhoods were positively related to living in a more diverse neighborhood 13 years after graduation.

-Early experiences with more diverse settings in both high schools and neighborhoods were associated with living in more diverse neighborhoods both 5 and 13 years after graduation.

School Vouchers and Student Neighborhoods: Evidence from the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program

1) Do voucher schools disproportionately draw students from better public schools and city neighborhoods, or do they draw students most in need of alternative options? 2) Are public schools attended by students in neighborhoods contributing large numbers of students to the voucher program more or less effective than those attended by students in neighborhoods with fewer voucher students? 3) Are voucher students located in city neighborhoods that directly contribute more or less to student outcomes? 4) What are the school and neighborhood contexts of students returning to the public sector?

Narrowing Pathways? Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of Postsecondary STEM Preparation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

What geographical factors are associated with the postsecondary STEM preparation of students from underrepresented groups in the School District of Philadelphia from middle to high school?

Inequality in Children's Contexts: Trends and Correlates of Economic Segregation Between School Districts, 1990-2010

How segregated are schools in the 100 largest metropolitan areas by income from the 1990s to the late 2000s? What are possible causes for segregation between the school districts?

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?

Family and Contextual Socioeconomic Effects Across Seasons: When Do they Matter for the Achievement Growth of Young Children?

School & neighborhood contexts influence on differences in children’s achievement growth during the kindergarten and first-grade years across seasons.

Family, Neighborhood, and School Settings Across Seasons: When Do Socioeconomic Context and Racial Composition Matter for the Reading Achievement Growth of Young Children?

Assess the degree to which social context and race/ethnic composition- in neighborhoods and schools- affect the reading achievement growth of young children.

Social Isolation and Social Cohesion: The Effects of K-12 Neighborhood and School Segregation on Intergroup Orientations

Relationship between social cohesion and social isolation at the institutional level in schools and neighborhoods.

Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program

Understand why the children of families who participated in the Baltimore MTO program did not experience larger gains in achievement.

Learning Apart, Living Apart: The Lasting Impact of Perpetual Segregation

Extent to which neighborhoods’ % white is replicated across generations & the extent to which HS’ & colleges’ percent white mediates this relationship.

Perceived School and Neighborhood Safety, Neighborhood Violence and Academic Achievement in Urban School Children

This study utilizes data obtained from the NIfETy Method, child self-report data related to students’ sense of safety, and standardized test scores to better understand the relationship betweenperceived community and school safety, neighborhood violence and school performance in 3rd-5th graders in a mid-Atlantic urban school system.

Neighborhoods and Schools as Competing and Reinforcing Contexts for Educational Attainment

Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the author analyzes how school and neighborhood contexts are jointly related to high school and college graduation.

Switching Social Contexts: The Effects of Housing Mobility and School Choice Programs on Youth Outcomes

Assesses research on the educational and socialoutcomes for comparable youth who change school and neighborhood settings through unique housing policy and school voucher programs.

Splintering School Districts: Understanding the Link Between Segregation and Fragmentation

Given what we know about the link between metropolitan areas with many districts and school segregation, how does the creation of school district boundaries in metropolitan areas affect the racial segregation of students?

Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement

Explores the relative effects of school and neighborhood characteristics on student achievement.

Plotting School Choice: The Challenges of Crossing District Lines

Uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping technology of school performance information in California, Texas, and Florida, to determine which factors limit the ability of students to take advantage of interdistrict school choice opportunities.

School Segregation in Metropolitan Regions, 1970-2000: The Impacts of Policy Choices on Public Education

Evaluate how court orders and federal intervention affected segregation within school districts in the post-Brown period.

Twenty-First Century Social Science on School Racial Diversity and Educational Outcomes

If amicus briefs are to bring relevant social science evidence to the attention of the Court in educational rights litigation, which research studies should be summarized and interpreted in the briefs?

Segregation and the Test Score Gap

Consider the role of school and neighborhood segregation in explaining trends in the black-white schooling gap.

Mapping Educational Inequality: Concentrations of Poverty and Poor and Minority Students in Public Schools

Understand the processes that lead to high concentrations of poverty in public schools for poor and minority students.

Racial Segregation and the Black-White Test Score Gap

Relate the achievement gap between Black and White students in a city to differences in their exposure to black peers in neighborhoods and schools.

Gender-Specific Effects of Ecological Segregation on College Achievement

Specify a comprehensive path model estimated separately fro male and female respondents to the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen.

Schooling Closer to Home: Desegregation Policy and Neighborhood Contexts

Analyze the implications of schooling closer to home by analyzing neighborhood contexts.

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.

Coloring Outside the Color Lines: Racial Segregation in Public Schools and their Attendance Boundaries

Impact of student enrollment in private schools on levels of racial segregation across urban school districts.

The Social Organization of School Choice in Chicago, 1960-2004

Describes Chicago’s patchwork system of school choice.

A Multidimensional Approach to Understanding Neighborhood Schools and their Potential Impact

What are the potential effects of Neighborhood schools on adolescent’s academic development? What is the association between neighborhood schools and level and rate of change in adolescent development?

School Choice, Magnet Schools, and the Liberation Model: An Empirical Study

This study examined whether school choice that is implemented through magnet schools affects the segregation of low-income students in school systems.

Difficult from the Start: Implementing the Brown Decision in the Kansas City, Missouri Public Schools

History of school desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri.

School Integration and Residential Segregation in California: Challenges for Racial Equity

Analyzed elementary schools in five California metropolitan areas to examine the extent that the racial composition of schools deviates from neighborhood compositions, and investigate the potential for schools to promote racial integration.

Boom for Whom? Education, Desegregation, and Development in Charlotte

A history of the use and demise of the mandatory busing plan in Charlotte, specifically the political and economic consequences of busing that facilitated the city’s economic boom and enhancement of civic capacity

Why Does It Take a Village? The Mediation of Neighborhood Effects on Educational Achievement

Identifies which neighborhood characteristics influence educational achievement and what mechanisms mediate those associations

Cosmopolitan Environments and Adolescents' Gains in Social Studies

Predict how neighborhood characteristics and measures of social problems affect gains on achievement tests between 10th and 12th grades.

Does Race Matter in Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans

Examines whites’ stated residential preferences,not just for African American neighbors but also for Hispanics and Asians, to determine relationships between race and residential segregation.

Racial and Economic Segregation and Educational Outcomes: One Tale-Two Cities

Racial & economic segregation of public schools in Philadelphia and Houston.

Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities

Investigates the link between ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods

The Contact Hypothesis Revisited: Black-White Interaction and Positive Racial Attitudes.

Do perceptions and expressions of hostility between blacks and whites vary as a function of interracial contact?

The Micro-Structure of School Desegregation

Explores the structure of social relations among participants in desegregated settings.

Some of My Best Friends are Black: Interracial Friendship and Whites' Racial Attitudes

Examines the tenets and assumptions of contact theory.

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