Examination of race and class segregation within one urban school district prior to and then after integration plans were dismantled.
Current Selections
ClearThe Relationship Between Degrees of Poverty and Student Achievement
Determine whether there were differences in the academic achievement for 4th and 8th grade students at three different levels of poverty.
Who Goes Where? How Kindergarteners' Social Background Maps Onto the Quality of the Elementary Schools They Attend
Investigates link between children’s’ social background and quality of their elementary school
Sociodemographic Diversity, Correlated Achievement, and De Facto Tracking
Assess impact of achievement and sociodemographic diversity for tracking
School Composition and Peer Effects in Distinctive Organizational Settings
Reviews the research on school composition and peer effects from three comparative perspectives.
The Effect of Schools and Classes on Mathematics Achievement
What are the effects of secondary schools, teachers, and classes on mathematics achievement.
A Diagnostic Analysis of Black-White GPA Disparities
Examine how race, family background, attitudes, and behaviors are related to achievement
Why Public Schools Lose Teachers?
Why Public Schools Lose Teachers? Understanding of the effects of salary and other school factors on teacher transitions.
Race, Class, and Tournament Track Mobility
Examine pattern of track mobility. Do all groups follow the same pattern or are there different mobility regimes?
Families or Schools? Explaining the Convergence in White and Black Academic Performance
What has caused the convergence in White and Black academic performance over the past twenty years? Are changes in families or schools responsible?
The New Economic School Segregation
Explore how can socioeconomic integration promotes racial integration in schools.
Regression Analysis in the Wilmington Case
Discusses the shortcomings of stepwise regression analyses in educational studies and examines the application of regression analyses by expert witnesses.
Trading in Futures: Why Markets in Education Don't Work
Individual and school level variables effect on achievement.
The American School Dilemma: Race and Scholastic Performance
How race and the racial composition of schools are related to academic achievement.
Dr. Armor's Regressions
Critique of statistical analyses used in desegregation research by Dr. Armor, as well as by well-known expert witnesses and researchers in desegregation litigation.
Course-Taking, Equity, and Mathematics Learning: Testing the Constrained Curriculum Hypothesis in U.S. Secondary Schools
How the organization of the mathematics curriculum in U.S. high schools affects how much students learn in that subject.
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?
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.
Racial and Economic Segregation and Educational Outcomes: One Tale-Two Cities
Racial & economic segregation of public schools in Philadelphia and Houston.
Effects of School Restructuring on the Achievement and Engagement of Middle-Grade Students
How differences in the organization of schools influence the learning and behavior of students who attend the schools?
Middle School Ability Grouping and Student Achievement in Science and Mathematics
Effects of middle school ability grouping on cognitive achievements in mathematics and science.
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.
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.
A Multilevel Model of the Social Distribution of High School Achievement
Why some schools are better able to induce academic outcomes among a broad social and racial distribution of students.
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?
School Integration and Occupational Achievement of Negroes
Examines long term outcomes of desegregated schooling for African Americans- employment patterns and income