Derive and evaluate a set of six multigroup segregation indices.
Current Selections
ClearIntegrating Neighborhoods, Segregating Schools: The Retreat from School Desegregation in the South, 1990-2000
Examines the relationship between residential segregation, public school segregation, and private school enrollment in the South in the 1990s.
What Do Parents Want from Schools? Evidence from the Internet
The aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of schools.
School Composition and Peer Effects
Conceptual and methodological problems related to theorizing school compositional effect.
Effects of High School Course-Taking and Other Variables on Choice of Science and Mathematics College Majors
To examine the effects of taking particular academically intensive science and mathematics high school courses on choice of science and mathematics majors, versus other majors, in college.
Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration of Chicano Students: Old and New Realities
1) What is the prevalence and effects of Chicano segregation?
2) What is the history of Chicano segregation and racism towards Chicanos?
3) What are the contemporary issues in Chicano segregation? 4) What has been or can be done to integrate Chicano students?
Immigration and African American Educational Opportunity: The Transformation of Minority Schools
Assesses the extent to which African Americans versus non-Hispanic Whites attend schools with children with limited English proficiency (LEP).
Short Circuits or Superconductors? Effects of Group Composition on High-Achieving Students' Science Assessment Performance
Analyze the group processes intensely in order to understand the impact of group composition on group functioning & the scores of high-ability student
The Positive Educational Effects of Racial Diversity on Campus
Link between diversity and positive educational outcomes.
Are Whites Still Fleeing? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987-1996
Examines recent trends in enrollment and racial composition in urban public schools. Does desegregation contribute to white enrollment losses?
Does Race Matter in Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans
Examines whites’ stated residential preferences,not just for African American neighbors but also for Hispanics and Asians, to determine relationships between race and residential segregation.
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.
Students' Attachment and Academic Engagement: The Role of Race and Ethnicity
Examines relationship between race and school attachment and engagement.
Is Diversity a Compelling Educational Interest? Evidence from Louisville
Evaluates how diversity affects the learning of White, Latino, and Asians students.
The New Segregation
Overview of US national demographic trends in school segregation and the results of research on immigrant children from Puerto Rico.
School Desegregation Policies and Judicial Trends in the United States
Historical overview of policies and judicial decisions concerning school segregation in the US, focusing on segregation of Hispanic/Latino students.
Race, Class, and Tournament Track Mobility
Examine pattern of track mobility. Do all groups follow the same pattern or are there different mobility regimes?
Subverting Swann: First- and Second Generation Segregation in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Effects of First and Second Generation segregation on the academic outcomes of CMS students.
Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in America
Tests whether school organization affects friendship segregation in a national sample of adolescents friendship networks.
Relationship Between School Composition and Characteristics of School Process and their Effect on Mathematics Achievement
Explores the relationship between school composition and characteristics of school process and investigates their effects on mathematics achievement.
Diversity and Legal Education: Student Experiences in Leading Law Schools
Explore the impact of diversity by asking students how it has influenced their educational experiences.
Suburban Racial Change and Suburban School Segregation, 1987-1995
The relationship between growing minority enrollments in suburban schools and changes in segregation levels in suburban schools.
Maximizing the Benefits of Student Diversity: Lessons from School Desegregation Research
Summarizes research on effects of desegregation in elementary and secondary schools
When and How School Desegregation Improves Intergroup Relations: The Relationship Between Social Psychology and Social Policy
Analyze studies that focus on when and how does school desegregation improve intergroup relations?
Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Classroom: Does it Promotes Student Learning?
Examines direct effect of classroom diversity on academic/intellectual outcomes and moderation of these by collaborative instructional approaches.
Is Campus Racial Diversity Correlated with Educational Benefits?
Refute the contrary claim that racial diversity confers educational benefits for all admitted students.
White Enrollment in Nonpublic Schools, Public School Racial Composition, and Student Performance
Is enrollment of whites in a nonpublic system associated with racial composition? Does it makes a difference for public school that whites are elsewhere?
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?
Tracking Financial Aid and Persistence of Women, Minority, and Needy Students in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
1) What are the persistence patterns of the special student populations compared to other populations in the same institutional setting? 2) Are the special student populations financing higher education differently than the comparison groups? 3) Are there significant differences in the persistence patterns of SEM and SEM student populations based on the type of aid received? 4) Have the amounts and types of aid received by the special student populations changed over time compared to other student populations?
The Continuing Struggle of African Americans for the Power to Make Real Educational Choices
Studies school choice for African Americans.
Peer Effects in the Classroom: Learning from Gender and Race Variation
Identify the effects of peers using sources of idisyncratic sources of variation, such as changes in the gender and racial composition.
The New Economic School Segregation
Explore how can socioeconomic integration promotes racial integration in schools.
School Desegregation, Academic Attainment and Earnings
Whether desegregation programs have raised lifetime earnings for blacks, through interracial contact or improvements in school quality.
High School Racial Composition: Balancing Excellence and Equity
Addresses the relationship between school racial composition and educational outcomes.
Campus Diversity and the New Economy
Link between diversity and economics. Relationship between diverse campuses and diverse workplaces.
Ethnic Segregation in Arizona Charter Schools
Is there evidence that charter schools are “skimming” White students?
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.
Expert Report of Patricia Gurin-Gratz et. al. v. Bollinger et. al.
Expert report from Gratz and Grutter
Trading in Futures: Why Markets in Education Don't Work
Individual and school level variables effect on achievement.
Poor School Funding, Child Poverty and Mathematics Achievement
New and better design for research on the net achievement effects of poor school funding and child poverty in America.
Organizational Context for Student Achievement: The Case of Student Racial Compositions
Exploring the relationship between school desegregation (race, SES, and school racial compostion) and student achievement and self-concept.
The Inequality of Separation: Racial Composition of Schools and Academic Achievement
1. Do African American students show significantly lower scores than other students on the Graduation Exit Examination (GEE)? 2. If they show lower scores, can differences in scores on this examination be explained by the SES of the family (as reflected by the occupational prestige and education of parents)? 3. Does the proportion of African Americans in a school tend to raise or lower the examination scores of students in general, controlling for the socio-demographic characteristics of individual students? 4. Can the effect of racial composition of schools be explained by family socioeconomic background of schoolmates? 5. Does the racial composition of schools affect African American and White Students achievement differently? What is the relative importance of these factors as between-school verses within-school determinants of academic achievement?
Teacher-Student Interactions and Race in Integrated Classrooms
Are Black and White students treated differently by White teachers on the basis of race in integrated classrooms?
Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment
Examines the Kansas City desegregation plan