Exploring the relationship between school desegregation (race, SES, and school racial compostion) and student achievement and self-concept.
Current Selections
ClearThe Inequality of Separation: Racial Composition of Schools and Academic Achievement
1. Do African American students show significantly lower scores than other students on the Graduation Exit Examination (GEE)? 2. If they show lower scores, can differences in scores on this examination be explained by the SES of the family (as reflected by the occupational prestige and education of parents)? 3. Does the proportion of African Americans in a school tend to raise or lower the examination scores of students in general, controlling for the socio-demographic characteristics of individual students? 4. Can the effect of racial composition of schools be explained by family socioeconomic background of schoolmates? 5. Does the racial composition of schools affect African American and White Students achievement differently? What is the relative importance of these factors as between-school verses within-school determinants of academic achievement?
When Desegregation Reduces Interracial Contact: A Class Size Paradox for Weak Ties
Desegregation is sometimes different from and inconsistent with maximizing interracial contact.
The American School Dilemma: Race and Scholastic Performance
How race and the racial composition of schools are related to academic achievement.
How High School Organization Influences the Equitable Distribution of Learning in Mathematics and Science
How social and academic organization of schools affects learning and its distribution?
Outcomes of School Desegregation: Findings from Longitudinal Research
Important noncognitive outcomes of school desegregation.
An Analysis of Elementary and Secondary School Choice
How characteristics of students, their families, and schools affect the school choices made across public, religious, and independent schools.
Classroom Structure, Functioning, and Student Outcomes: An Organizational-Cultural Approach to Classroom Research
The relations between classroom organization characteristics and student education outcomes, with a focus on the classroom functioning mechanism.
Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education: A Continuing Debate
Review critically the minority overrepresentation problem from a historical perspective.
The Continuing Significance of Desegregation: School Racial Composition and African American Inclusion in American Society
Summarizes research on the long term consequences of desegregation.
Winter Setback: The Racial Composition of Schools and Learning to Read
How the racial composition of schools affects children’s cognitive growth during the first two years of school for youngsters in the BSS.
Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education
Analyzes racial disparities in school quality since the 1950s and the implications of differential school quality for labor market outcomes (wage gap)
Summer Setback: Race, Poverty, School Composition, and Mathematics Achievement in the First Two Years of School
Test score changes over the summer when school is closed to estimate “home” influences.
The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Segregation on the Achievement Gap in California High Schools
Examines the extent and impact of racial and ethnic segregation in CA HS during the 1988-1989 school years.
How Much Does a High School's Racial and Socioeconomic Mix Affect Graduation and Teenage Fertility Rates?
Examine the potential impact of racial and socioeconomic desegregation of schools on students’ chances of dropping out of high schools and on teenage girls’ chances of having a child.
Desegregation and the Stability of White Enrollments: A School-Level Analysis, 1968-84
- Is the alteration of a school’s racial composition during desegregation associated with the subsequent withdrawal of White pupils?
- In relation to long-term effects, are the school-enrollment patterns of White pupils in the post-desegregation period distinct from those prior to desegregation?
The Causes of Student Achievement
Compare the influence of family background, school financial resources, and other possible causes of student achievement.
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.
Ability Grouping and Sex Differences in Mathematics Achievement
Investigate the effects of ability grouping and sex differences on the mathematics achievement of elementary school students.
Opportunities and Constraints: Black-White Differences in the Formation of Interracial Friendships
Studies the effects of classroom climate, instructional organization, and classroom racial composition on cross-race friendliness
Faculty Desegregation and Student Achievement
Faculty Desegregation Influence on Student Achievement.
Effects of Cooperative Learning Teams on Student Achievement and Race Relations: Treatment by Race Interactions
Investigation of race by treatment interactions on student achievement and race relations.
The Perpetuation of Segregation Across Levels of Education: A Behavioral Assessment of the Contact Hypothesis
Examines if black students who attend desegregated high schools are more likely to attend desegregated colleges.
Academic Performance of Black High School Students Under Different Conditions of Contact with White Peers
The possible interaction effects of class racial composition and friendship with whites on several aspects of black student’s academic performance
School Racial Composition and College Attendance Revisited
Direct effects of school racial composition on college attendance when introducing curriculum and grades and relocating the test scores.
Effects of Biracial Learning Teams on Cross-Racial Friendships
Studies the effects of biracial learning teams on cross-race friendship in desegregated junior high schools
School Racial Composition and Black College Attendance and Achievement Test Performance
What are the processes by which different methods of desegregation affect different types of students on different kinds of outcomes?
The Effects of Desegregation on Student Achievement: Some New Evidence from the Equality of Educational Opportunity Survey
Examine patterns of change in achievement between first and sixth graders and between ninth and twelfth graders in desegregated schools