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.
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ClearEthnic and Socioeconomic Class Composition and Language Proficiency: A Longitudinal Multilevel Examination in Dutch Elementary Schools
Ascertains the impact of ethnic and socioeconomic composition of pupils’ school classes on language proficiency.
K-12 Race-Conscious Student Assignment Policies: Law, Social Science and Diversity
Examines the legality of K-12 race-conscious student assignment policies
Brown Over "Other White": Mexican Americans' Legal Arguments and Litigation Strategy in School Desegregation Lawsuits
Why and with what results did Mexican American lawyers use arguments and strategies that did not draw on the constitutional substance of Brown?
College Access, K-12 Concentrated Disadvantage, and the Next 25 Years of Education Research
Present method to understand concentrated disadvantage in K-12. Explore link between K-12 and college access. Examine concentrated disadvantage by race.
Structuring Inequality: How California Selectively Tests Classifies, and Tracks Language Minority Students
Processes and consequences of state-mandated classification, selective testing, and tracking of language minority students.
The Impact of Brown on Latinos: A Study on Transformation Policy Intentions
Describes the transformation of desegregation policy in San Jose, California where Latino students constituted the plaintiff class.
School Segregation and Black Achievement: New Evidence from the 2003 NAEP
Studies the relationship between racial composition and achievement using the 2003 and 2005 NAEP data.
Precarious Space: Majority Black Suburbs and Their Public Schools
Understand student achievement in public schools in majority black suburbs
Examining Gaps in Mathematics Achievement Among Racial-Ethnic Groups, 1972-1992
Empirically examine several family-and school-based explanations for black-white and Latino-white test score differences over the past 20 years.
The Effect of Charter Schools on School Peer Composition
The effect of charter schools have on the distribution of students by race/ethnicity and ability.
Federal Involvement in Local School Districts
Raise the perspective that Brown resulted in at least one great negative unintended consequence for American public schools.
Within-School Segregation in an Urban School District
Examine patterns in and evaluate the severity of within-school segregation across ethnic groups, grades, boroughs, and years.
Who's Left Behind? Immigrant Children in High and Low LEP Schools
Examines differences in the provision of educational services to LEP students across schools with varying proportions of LEP student enrollment
Factors Associated With Mathematics Achievement and Participation in Advanced Mathematics Courses: An Examination of Gender Differences From an International Perspective
This paper reports results of an exploratory study examining factors that might be associated with achievement in mathematics and participation in advanced mathematics courses in Canada, Norway, and the United States of America (USA). These factors, which were not directly related to schooling accounted for large degrees of variability in mathematics achievement scores. Research questions: 1) How are the personal and environmental variables associated with achievement in mathematics for females and males in the three countries? 2) How are the personal and environmental variables associated with participation in advanced mathematics courses for females and males in the three countries?
Addressing Institutional Inequities in Education: The Case of Advanced Placement Courses in California
Evaluate equality of opportunities that students of different races/ethnicities/social classes & communities have to participate in AP courses in CA.
Tools of Exclusion: Race, Disability, and (Re)segregated Education
Examines the resistance to school desegregation and inclusion of students with disabilities in public education.
Effects of School Segregation and School Resources in a Changing Policy Context
Impact of school composition and school resources on student achievement growth.
Learning Through Experience: What Graduates Gained by Attending Desegregated High Schools
Examines students’ experiences from attending a desegregated high school.
Taking Race Out of the Equation: School Reassignment and the Structure of Peer Effects
1.Learn about the structure of peer effects work. 2. Whether desegregation on the basis of family income has different effects than racial segregation
The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America
Firsthand accounts of how segregation and apartheid continues in America’s inner city schools and how teachers at those schools persist against the odds.
Fifty Years after Brown: New Evidence of the Impact of School Racial Composition on Student Outcomes
Expand the discussion of the impact of desegregation beyond the traditional test measures & including racial groups that have been largely ignored.
The Social Organization of School Choice in Chicago, 1960-2004
Describes Chicago’s patchwork system of school choice.
Science Education with English Language Learners: Synthesis and Research Agenda
Research on science education with English Language Learners
Estimating Correlates of Growth Between Mathematics and Science Achievement Via a Multivariate Multilevel Design with Latent Variables
Examined the relationship between growth in mathematics and science achievement during middle and high school among students and schools, and we demonstrated that such a model was more sensitive to this relationship.
"We Value Diversity, but…" Academic Achievement of White, Middle Class Elementary Students in Segregated and Integrated Schools
Does academic achievement of elementary school children from white, middle class backgrounds differ depending on the racial makeup of their school?
When Opting Out is not a Choice: Implications for NCLB's Transfer Option from Charlotte, North Carolina
Examines the implementation and early outcomes of No Child Left Behind’s voluntary transfer option for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School after end of court-mandated desegregation.
Student Segregation and Achievement Tracking in Year-Round Schools
Studied multitrack year-round education (MT-YRE) schools (system that differentiates school attendance groups) in California.
Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality
An analysis of how tracking in the American school system and its relationship to issues of inequality and excellence affected the education of junior and senior high school students in twenty-five US schools.
Court-Ordered Desegregation: Successes and Failures Integrating American Schools Since Brown Versus Board of Education
The purpose is to assess whether desegregation plans led to losses in white enrollment and examine the effects of plans on the loss of white students.
Does Segregation Still Matter? The Impact of Student Composition on Academic Achievement in High School
Whether racial and socioeconomic segregation is still contributing to the achievement differences among students.
Test Scores, Dropout Rates, and Transfer Rates as Alternative Indicators of High School Performance
Looks at whether schools that are effective in raising test scores are also effective in reducing dropout and transfer rates, and focuses on which school characteristics predict these alternative indicators of performance.
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?
Who Graduates in the South?
Who Graduates in the South?
The Mexican American Struggle for Equal Educational Opportunity in Mendez v. Westminster: Helping Pave the Way for Brown v. Board of Education
To remember the importance of the Mendez case in the broader struggle for equal educational opportunity in the U.S..
How Desegregation Changed Us: The Effects of Racially Mixed Schools on Students and Society
Ideas of graduates, educators, advocates and local policy makers who were directly involved in racially mixed public high schools 25 years ago.
The Goals of a Voluntary Integration Program and the Problems of Access: A Closer Look at a Magnet School Application Brochure
Analysis of the district’s magnet school choice brochure and application and show that these key texts provide insights about Brown.
Does School Integration Generate Peer Effects? Evidence from Boston's Metco Program.
The impact of METCO (long-running desegregation program) on receiving districts.
Elementary School Teachers' Perceptions and Attitudes to the Educational Structure of Tracking
Explores teachers’ attitudes and perceptions about tracking in three NY State public schools.
Effects of Racial Diversity on Complex Thinking in College Students
Measure the impact of racial diversity on the complexity of thinking in college students.
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.