Examine the impact of a school’s racial make-up on its students.
Current Selections
ClearWhen Desegregation Reduces Interracial Contact: A Class Size Paradox for Weak Ties
Desegregation is sometimes different from and inconsistent with maximizing interracial contact.
Teachers' Perceptions and Expectations and The Black-White Test Score Gap
Ways in which teachers’ and students’ behaviors might be causes/consequences of racially disparate perceptions and expectations regarding achievement.
Persistence in Science of High-Ability Minority Students: Results of a Longitudinal Study
The purpose of this study was to construct a comprehensive model to investigate why some high-ability minority students follow through with their plans to become scientists and engineers, while others with the same plans do not.
Affirmative Action in the Classroom: Diversity Effects on Student Outcomes: Social Science Evidence
Impact of diversity on student learning in higher education
The Economics of School Reform
Analysis of school reform in the US.
Tell Me With Whom You're Learning and I'll Tell You How Much You've Learned: Mixed-Ability Versus Same-Ability Grouping in Mathematics
The effects of teaching mathematics in a mixed-ability setting on student’s achievements and teachers’ attitudes.
The Tracking and Ability Grouping Debate
What have we actually learned about tracking and ability grouping?
Race and General Cognitive Ability: The Myth of Diminishing Returns to Education
The impact of education on racial differences in general cognitive ability.
Equity Issues in Collaborative Group Assessment: Group Composition and Performance
Investigated the effects of group ability composition on group processes and outcomes in science performance assessments.
Segregated Placement Patterns of Students with Disabilities in Three States
Examine the placement patterns in three states that place nearly half of their students with disabilities in separate classrooms.
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.
Linking Diversity and Educational Purpose: How the Diversity of the Faculty and Student Body May Impact the Classroom Environment and Student Development
Examines the consequences of having a diverse student body and diverse faculty on student outcomes at predominantly white, four year institutions.
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?
Detracking: The Social Construction of Ability, Cultural Politics, and Resistance to Reform
Explores how conceptions of intelligence intervene in efforts to detrack schools.
Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools: A Special Report from the Harvard Project on School Desegregation
Report on school segregation changes after the 1990s.
Introduction and Overview: The Role of Social Science in School Desegregation Efforts
Overview of the role of social science in school desegregation
Outcomes of School Desegregation: Findings from Longitudinal Research
Important noncognitive outcomes of school desegregation.
Stepping Over the Color Line: African-American Students in White Suburban Schools
A complex conversation about the separate but unequal situation in many schools today, resulting in a call for a re-examination of school choice policies across the country to bring about more racial and social class integration
Tracking and Transitions Through the Middle Grades: Channeling Educational Trajectories
Examines sources of influence on inner-city students’ initial middle school placements in English and mathematics and continuity and change in placements through the end of middle school
Relation of Parental Involvement, Empowerment, and School Traits to Student Academic Performance
What is the relation of parental involvement in education to student academic performance? What is the relation of parent perceptions of involvement and empowerment and school structural characteristics to student academic performance?
Does School Quality Explain the Recent Black/White Wage Trend?
Whether educational quality can explain the break in the trend toward black/white wage equality.
Brown vs. Board of Education
History of Brown v. Board of Education
Ethnic Diversity and Creativity in Small Groups
Test the value of in-diversity hypothesis (that ethnic diversity produces tangible, positive effects on organizational outcome).
Notes: An Evidentiary Framework for Diversity as a Compelling Interest in Higher Education
How should courts address diversity in higher education?
High School Seniors' Instructional Experiences in Science and Math
To what extent are high school seniors’ instructional experiences affected by their social backgrounds and by the schools they attend?
High Standards in a Tracked System of Schooling: For Which Students and with What Educational Supports?
Equitable opportunity for all children to learn challenging curricula. Changing limiting beliefs of teacher’s methods.
The Effect of Childhood Interracial Contact on Adult Antiblack Prejudice
Does desegregation have any measureable effect on racial prejudice? Does childhood interracial contact have any lasting effect on adult prejudice?
Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law
To describe and explain conclusions about desegregation policy, especially to show how these viewpoints have evolved from legal doctrines, social and science research, and extensive case experience
A Longitudinal Study of Engineering Student Performance and Retention. III. Gender Differences in Student Performance and Attitudes
Why did the women in the study- whose qualifications were arguably better than those of the men when they entered the chemical engineering curriculum- earn lower grades in chemical engineering courses and exhibit progressively lower confidence levels and expectations of themselves as they advanced through the curriculum?
An Organizational Analysis of the Effects of Ability Grouping
Examines variation in the quality and effects of instructional discourse across ability groups.
Individual and Organizational Predictors of High School Track Placement
What is the importance of school characteristics in the determination of track placement?
All Children Can Learn- The Unmet Promise: A Study of Ability Grouping and Tracking in North Carolina Schools
Analyzes instructional grouping practices in NC.
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.
Two Cities' Tracking and Within-School Segregation
Examined how grouping practices can create within-school segregation that discriminates against Black and Latino students.
Matchmaking: The Dynamics of High School Tracking Decisions
Examines how educators frame tracking decisions.
Review of Research on School Desegregation's Impact on Elementary and Secondary School Students
Review of the literature on the impact of school desegregation. Focus on methodological and other problems that typify work in this area.
Racial and Economic Segregation and Educational Outcomes: One Tale-Two Cities
Racial & economic segregation of public schools in Philadelphia and Houston.
Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education: A Continuing Debate
Review critically the minority overrepresentation problem from a historical perspective.
Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities
Investigates the link between ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods