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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?

Can Class-Based Substitute for Race-Based Student Assignment Plans? Evidence from Wake County, North Carolina.

1. Were Wake County schools more racially integrated under the race-based or the socioeconomic-based pupil assignment plan? 2. Was overall student achievement higher under the race-based or socioeconomic-based plan? 3. Did achievement gaps increase or decrease under the race-based or socioeconomic-based plan? 4. Was school racial composition correlated with changes in performance under the race-based or socioeconomic assignment plan?

Choosing Selves: The Salience of Parental Identity in the School Choice Process

What motivates middle class parents to send their children to a racially and socioeconomically integrated urban school? What were the processes through which they came to that decision?

How did parents’ views of social class and, especially, race affect their decision-making?

Peer Effects in Urban Schools: Assessing the Impact of Classroom Composition on Student Achievement

This study evaluates the effects of classroom peers on standardized testing achievement for all third- and fourth-grade students in the Philadelphia School District over 6 school years.

Seeking a 'Critical Mass': Middle-Class Parents Collective Engagement in City Public Schooling

Is middle-class parents’ collective engagement in schooling particularly important in under-resourced urban contexts?

Homeless Students and Academic Achievement: Evidence from a Large Urban Area

Is housing status a predictor of student achievement in a large urban district, even after controlling for common correlates like income and race? Is the homelessness effect mediated by attendance? What school-level factors predict homeless student achievement?

Intergroup Relations in Integrated Schools: A Glimpse Inside Interdistrict Magnet Schools

How does the extent and quality of intergroup contact experienced by students help to predict their perceptions of the academic environment in the school or their attitudes towards people from other groups (racial and ethnic).

Diverse Schools in a Democratic Society: New Ways of Understanding How School Demographics Affect Civic and Political Learning

This paper considers whether a new framework for conceptualizing school racial composition, including the number and identity of specific racial groups and the stability of those groups, can determine more precisely the ways in which school diversity impacts students’ citizenship learning.

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?

Changing Diversity in U.S. Schools: The Impact on Elementary Student Performance and Achievement

1) What is the relationship and predictability of poverty, teacher quality, and diversity of schools on Grade 5 reading and mathematics Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) examinations for student subgroups in selected districts?

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.

The Sorting Effect of Charter Schools on Student Composition in Traditional Public Schools

This article investigates how Michigan’s charter school policy influences the composition of students by race and socioeconomic status in urban traditional public schools.

Mapping School Segregation: Using GIS to Explore Racial Segregation Between Schools and their Corresponding Attendance Areas

Examines whether student enrollment in non-neighborhood schools changes levels of racial segregation in public schools across urban school districts by comparing the racial composition of schools and their corresponding attendance area.

Race, Racial Concentration, and the Dynamics of Educational Inequality Across Urban and Suburban Schools

How does the process of educational performance and attainment differ across the 2 types of American schools (low and high minority schools)?

Disentangling the Racial Test Score Gap: Probing the Evidence in a Large Urban School District

They examine the distribution of the gap in test scores across races within New York City public schools and the factors that explain these group.

When Busing Ends: Resegregation and Inequality in an Urban School District

Examination of race and class segregation within one urban school district prior to and then after integration plans were dismantled.

Teacher Sorting and the Plight of Urban Schools: A Descriptive Analysis

Determine how much variation in the average attributes of teachers currently exists across schools.