Examine institutional linkages and their consequences for racially disparate educational outcomes.
Current Selections
ClearSegregated Placement Patterns of Students with Disabilities in Three States
Examine the placement patterns in three states that place nearly half of their students with disabilities in separate classrooms.
Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools: A Special Report from the Harvard Project on School Desegregation
Report on school segregation changes after the 1990s.
Does School Quality Explain the Recent Black/White Wage Trend?
Whether educational quality can explain the break in the trend toward black/white wage equality.
Brown vs. Board of Education
History of Brown v. Board of Education
Two Cities' Tracking and Within-School Segregation
Examined how grouping practices can create within-school segregation that discriminates against Black and Latino students.
Racial and Economic Segregation and Educational Outcomes: One Tale-Two Cities
Racial & economic segregation of public schools in Philadelphia and Houston.
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.
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?
White Flight and White Return in Norfolk: A Test of Prediction
Compares prediction of continuing white flight In Norfolk to what actually happened there during the 1980s.
Social-Psychological Processes that Perpetuate Racial Segregation: The Relationship Between School and Employment Desegregation
Study processes that perpetuate segregation.
Finding Niches: Desegregated Students Sixteen Years Later
Compares educational attainment and present attitudes of young black adults who did and did not participate in a desegregation program.
Does School Desegregation Policy Stimulate Residential Integration?
Relationship between schools and housing and specifically the relocation behavior of minority households.
Segregation and Rationality in Black Status Aspiration Processes
Is organizational influence (segregated vs. desegregated schooling) important for rational plans of action related to status outcomes?
School Integration and Occupational Achievement of Negroes
Examines long term outcomes of desegregated schooling for African Americans- employment patterns and income