How did fiscal resources and human interests affect suburban implementation of the voluntary transfer program between 1999 and 2009?
Current Selections
ClearChoice Without Equity: Charter School Segregation and the Need for Civil Rights Standards
Examines diversity and racial isolation within charter schools in 40 states and several dozen metropolitan areas.
The Post-Parents Involved Challenge: Confronting Extralegal Obstacles to Integration
How do assumptions, structures, institutions and other factors that impact our educational system interact to create and perpetuate inequality? Is school racial segregation one of the factors that create and perpetuate educational inequality?
Lost Learning, Forgotten Promises- A National Analysis of School Racial Segregation, Student Achievement, and "Controlled Choice" Plans
New and exhaustive analysis of racial segregation across the United States.
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?
Federal Involvement in Local School Districts
Raise the perspective that Brown resulted in at least one great negative unintended consequence for American public schools.
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..
The Color Line in American Education: Race, Resources, and Student Achievement
Outline current disparities in educational access and illustrate relationships among race, educational resources, and student achievement.
Returning to Square One: From Plessey to Brown and Back to Plessey.
Revisiting and examining Brown’s historical significance and its education policy legacy.
Designing Schools and Instruction that Use Student Diversity to Enhance Learning for All Students
Examines how schools and students can benefit from diversity.
The Perverse Incentives of the No Child Left Behind Act
Examines the incentives created by NCLBA
Is Campus Racial Diversity Correlated with Educational Benefits?
Refute the contrary claim that racial diversity confers educational benefits for all admitted students.
The Continuing Struggle of African Americans for the Power to Make Real Educational Choices
Studies school choice for African Americans.
The New Economic School Segregation
Explore how can socioeconomic integration promotes racial integration in schools.
Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment
Examines the Kansas City desegregation plan
The Tracking and Ability Grouping Debate
What have we actually learned about tracking and ability grouping?
Notes: An Evidentiary Framework for Diversity as a Compelling Interest in Higher Education
How should courts address diversity in higher education?
Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education: A Continuing Debate
Review critically the minority overrepresentation problem from a historical perspective.
Tracking and Ability Grouping in American Schools: Some Constitutional Questions
Examine from a constitutional perspective the bases on which ability grouping and tracking might be challenged as barriers to equal educational opp.