Studies the connection between student achievement in reading & the Black-White achievement gap, emphasizing different instructional strategies.
Current Selections
ClearTracking by Accident and by Design
Tracking in Japan, Germany and the US.
The Effects of Racial Dissonance on the Academic Achievement and Self-Esteem of Hispanic Middle School Students
Assess the relevance of Rosenberg’s theory of racial dissonance with Hispanic middle school students.
Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina's Public School Classrooms
School segregation within the districts and counties in the state of NC.
The Political Economy of School Choice: Linking Theory and Evidence
Apply findings to simulate the impact of a hypothetical school voucher on private enrollment, the tax rate, public spending per student, and welfare.
Equity in Heterogeneous Classrooms
Argues that multicultural classrooms should be equitable classrooms through heterogeneous grouping.
Disparities Within: Unequal Spending and Achievement in an Urban School District
Analyzes variations in spending and achievement among 89 public elementary schools.
The Effect of Schools and Classes on Language Achievement
The effect of schools and classes upon literacy in the second grade of secondary education.
Socioeconomic Integration as a Tool for Diversifying Schools: Promise and Practice in Two Large School Systems
Influence of socioeconomic integration on racial-ethnic diversity in San Francisco, CA and Wake County, NC schools.
Charter Schools and Race: A Lost Opportunity for Integrated Education
Whether or not charter schools offer a less segregated experience than the public schools to the increasing numbers of students they serve.
How Does Racial/Ethnic Diversity Promote Education?
Explores the relationship between students’ experiences with diverse peers in collegiate settings and their educational outcomes.
School Desegregation and the American Dream
An examination of desegregation as a way to see how conflicts over the American dream have played out in America’s schools.
The Effect of Group-level Influences on Pupils' Progress in Reading
Investigates the existence or otherwise of group-level effects on progress in reading.
Economic School Integration
Explores the end of court-ordered desgregation, describes the alternative of socioeconomic integration, and sketches prospects for economic school integration in the future.
Educational Benefits of Racially and Ethnically Diverse School
Summarizes research on school desegregation and the benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in K-12 schooling.
Peer Effects on Student Achievement: Evidence from Chile
Estimates of peer effects on student achievement, using a 1997 census of eight-grade achievement in Chile.
Beyond Black and White: The Present and Future of Multiracial Friendship Segregation
Examines student friendship patterns across racial/ethnic groups in multiracial schools
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.
The Evolution of School Desegregation Plans Since 1954
An examination of school desegregation plans since 1954.
Stereotypic Explanatory Bias: Implicit Stereotyping as a Predictor of Discrimination
Whether a measure of implicit stereotyping is predictive of behavior towards a partner in an interracial interaction.
The 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.
Tracking and Mixed-Ability Grouping in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms: A Case Study
Trying to test if tracking produces systematic differences in provision of students.
Increasing Diversity and Persistent Segregation: Challenges of Educating Minority and Immigrant Children in Urban America
An overview of America’s racial and ethnic composition from the 2000 Census and the implications of increasing diversity for urban public schools.
Preservation or Transformation: Where's the Real Educational Discourse on Diversity?
How overlooking critical areas of diversity-related campus initiatives may preserve the very system that diversity advocates seek to transform.
Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities
Document and measure the extent of interracial contact within schools.
Special Education or Racial Segregation: Understanding Variation in the Representation of Black Students in Educable Mentally Handicapped Programs
Studies the effects of local racial/political-economic structures, school district characteristics and school desegregation politics on the number and proportion of black students in educable mentally handicapped (EMH).
Private Schools and "Latino Flight" from Black School Children
How Latino flight affects the resulting racial composition of the public schools?
Racial Segregation in Georgia Public Schools 1994-2001: Trends, Causes and Impact on Teacher Quality
Racial Segregation in GA Public Schools.
Education, Social Cohesion, and Economic Growth
Examines the relation between social cohesion, education, and growth. This paper focuses on the role of state schooling in reducing transaction costs by shrinking the “social distance” between individuals in the economy.
Diversity in Higher Education: Theory and Impact in Educational Outcomes
Explore relationship between students’ experiences with diverse peers in the college or university settings and their educational outcomes.
Classroom Composition and Peer Effects
The extent to which the composition of classes affects learning outcomes.
Diversity and Educational Quality
Why benefits of diversity are part of educational quality?
Buying Homes, Buying Schools: School Choice and the Social Construction of School Quality
What are the choices of the parents who advocates feel are unfairly privileged in the existing educational system?
Students' Precollege Preparation for Participation in a Diverse Democracy
How students’ precollege experiences predisposed them to 3 democratic outcomes.
The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Diversity on Educational Outcomes: Cambridge, MA School District
Impact of racial and ethnic diversity on educational outcomes
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.
Texas Public Schools: Ethnic/Racial, Socioeconomic, and Linguistic Composition of Student Bodies and Academic Test Performance
What is the relationship between student body’s ethnic/racial, socioeconomic and linguistic composition with academic performance?
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.