Studies the relationship between attending desegregated high schools and desegregated adult workplaces.
Current Selections
ClearThe Continuing Significance of Desegregation: School Racial Composition and African American Inclusion in American Society
Summarizes research on the long term consequences of desegregation.
The Promise of Brown and the Reality of Academic Groups: The Tracks of My Tears
Examines the antecedents of academic tracking and ability grouping in America and reviews the justification for these concepts in public schools.
Off The Track
Impact of current tracking practices and impacts. Showing how these practices are harming millions of students and our society.
Winter Setback: The Racial Composition of Schools and Learning to Read
How the racial composition of schools affects children’s cognitive growth during the first two years of school for youngsters in the BSS.
Choosing and Leaving Science in Highly Selective Institutions
– Of the group of 2,276 students initially interested in science, 40 percent did not finally concentrate in science, and smaller proportions of women (48 percent) than of men (66 percent) persisted.
– The most significant cognitive factor predicting these losses was low grades earned in science courses taken during the first two years of study.
– With grades held equal, gender was not a significant predictor of persistence in engineering and biology; gender added strongly to grades, however, as a factor associated with unusually large losses of women from a category that included the physical sciences and mathematics.
– Science majors regarded their instruction as too competitive, with too few opportunities to ask questions, taught by professors who were relatively unresponsive, not dedicated, and not motivating.
– Students who defected from science did so largely because of the attraction of other fields, but many shared the criticism of over competitiveness and inferior instruction, along with the view that the work was too difficult.
– Except for perceived competitiveness, women did not rate their classroom experiences as being more unpleasant than did men.
Alternative Uses of Ability Grouping in Secondary Schools: Can We Bring High-Quality Instruction to Low-Ability Classes?
Explores possible instances of high-quality instruction in low-ability classes.
Effects of School Restructuring on the Achievement and Engagement of Middle-Grade Students
How differences in the organization of schools influence the learning and behavior of students who attend the schools?
Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education
Analyzes racial disparities in school quality since the 1950s and the implications of differential school quality for labor market outcomes (wage gap)
Summer Setback: Race, Poverty, School Composition, and Mathematics Achievement in the First Two Years of School
Test score changes over the summer when school is closed to estimate “home” influences.
The Variable Effects of High School Tracking
Analyzes how the structure of the tracking system is related to differences in achievement.
The Organization of Students for Instruction in the Middle School
The structure of tracking systems and the process of assigning students to tracks for instruction at a critical point in schooling, the middle school.
Middle School Ability Grouping and Student Achievement in Science and Mathematics
Effects of middle school ability grouping on cognitive achievements in mathematics and science.
The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Segregation on the Achievement Gap in California High Schools
Examines the extent and impact of racial and ethnic segregation in CA HS during the 1988-1989 school years.
Multicultural Education: Its Effects on Students' Racial and Gender Role Attitudes
Describes research on the effects of multicultural education on the perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs of K-12 students
The Organizational Context of Tracking in Schools
How do the organizational characteristics of schools affect the tracking system?
How Much Does a High School's Racial and Socioeconomic Mix Affect Graduation and Teenage Fertility Rates?
Examine the potential impact of racial and socioeconomic desegregation of schools on students’ chances of dropping out of high schools and on teenage girls’ chances of having a child.
School Desegregation and Intergroup Relations: A Review of the Literature
Assess the current state of literature on desegregation and intergroup relations
Desegregation and the Stability of White Enrollments: A School-Level Analysis, 1968-84
- Is the alteration of a school’s racial composition during desegregation associated with the subsequent withdrawal of White pupils?
- In relation to long-term effects, are the school-enrollment patterns of White pupils in the post-desegregation period distinct from those prior to desegregation?
White Flight and White Return in Norfolk: A Test of Prediction
Compares prediction of continuing white flight In Norfolk to what actually happened there during the 1980s.
The Causes of Student Achievement
Compare the influence of family background, school financial resources, and other possible causes of student achievement.
The Social Consequences of Growing Up in a Poor Neighborhood
Determine how much effect the social composition of a neighborhood or school has on children’s life chances.
Social-Psychological Processes that Perpetuate Racial Segregation: The Relationship Between School and Employment Desegregation
Study processes that perpetuate segregation.
Finding Niches: Desegregated Students Sixteen Years Later
Compares educational attainment and present attitudes of young black adults who did and did not participate in a desegregation program.
A Multilevel Model of the Social Distribution of High School Achievement
Why some schools are better able to induce academic outcomes among a broad social and racial distribution of students.
The Social and Academic Consequences of School Desegregation
Reviews the literature on long term social consequences of school desegregation, & how to opearte desegregated schools effectively.
Does School Desegregation Policy Stimulate Residential Integration?
Relationship between schools and housing and specifically the relocation behavior of minority households.
Curriculum Tracking as Mediating the Social Distribution of High School Achievement
Differences in how tracking decisions are made. Pattern of students’ course enrollments within academic tracks.
Girls' Academic Achievements: Single-Sex Versus Coeducational Schools in Australia
Examines whether type of secondary school attended (sex composition) affects girls’ academic achievements net of other relevant factors.
Ability Grouping and Sex Differences in Mathematics Achievement
Investigate the effects of ability grouping and sex differences on the mathematics achievement of elementary school students.
Opportunities and Constraints: Black-White Differences in the Formation of Interracial Friendships
Studies the effects of classroom climate, instructional organization, and classroom racial composition on cross-race friendliness
Ability Grouping and its Alternatives: Must We Track?
What is the evidence about the achievement effects of ability grouping? What are the alternatives?
Instructional Grouping in the Classroom
Some types of instructional grouping that contribute to more positive academic and affective outcomes for students.
Cross-Group Contact Opportunities: Impact on Interpersonal Relationships in Desegregated Middle Schools
Examines the effects of school organizational structure on students’ interracial and cross-sex communication patterns
Classroom Intellectual Composition and Academic Achievement
Test if the intellectual level of the classroom affects the quality of learning environments.
Some of My Best Friends are Black: Interracial Friendship and Whites' Racial Attitudes
Examines the tenets and assumptions of contact theory.