Are levels of school segregation associated with differing levels of racialized disciplinary imbalances?
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ClearSchool Segregation, Education Attainment and Crime. Evidence for the End of Busing in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
What was the impact of the end of court ordered desegregation in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on students’ achievement test scores, criminal activity, and educational attainment? Unitary status and the end of busing in 2002 created conditions for a natural experiment that the study exploits.
The Race Gap in High School Reading Achievement: Why School Racial Composition Still Matters
How is school racial composition related to reading achievement?
Sinking Swann: Public School Choice and the Resegregation of Charlotte's Public Schools
Evaluates two public school assignment policies (open enrollment & mandatory choice, not using race or ethnicity in assignment) using data from CMS.
How Middle School Segregation Contributes to the Race Gap in Academic Achievement
Studies the effects of school racial composition on the academic outcomes of middle school students
Tools of Exclusion: Race, Disability, and (Re)segregated Education
Examines the resistance to school desegregation and inclusion of students with disabilities in public education.
When Opting Out is not a Choice: Implications for NCLB's Transfer Option from Charlotte, North Carolina
Examines the implementation and early outcomes of No Child Left Behind’s voluntary transfer option for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School after end of court-mandated desegregation.
Court-Ordered Desegregation: Successes and Failures Integrating American Schools Since Brown Versus Board of Education
The purpose is to assess whether desegregation plans led to losses in white enrollment and examine the effects of plans on the loss of white students.
The Goals of a Voluntary Integration Program and the Problems of Access: A Closer Look at a Magnet School Application Brochure
Analysis of the district’s magnet school choice brochure and application and show that these key texts provide insights about Brown.
Inequality Segregation and the Overrepresentation of African American in School Suspensions
Relationship between school segregation patterns and the phenomenon of Black suspension overrepresentation.
Racial Segregation and Educational Outcomes in Metropolitan Boston
Examines segregation, demographic change, and educational attainment in the Boston metropolitan area during 1990s.
Justice Deferred - A Half Century After Brown v. Board of Education
Reviews the history of the racial desegregation of America’s public schools.
Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina's Public School Classrooms
School segregation within the districts and counties in the state of NC.
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.
Integrating 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.
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?
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?
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?
Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools: A Special Report from the Harvard Project on School Desegregation
Report on school segregation changes after the 1990s.
All Children Can Learn- The Unmet Promise: A Study of Ability Grouping and Tracking in North Carolina Schools
Analyzes instructional grouping practices in NC.
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.
Ability Grouping and its Alternatives: Must We Track?
What is the evidence about the achievement effects of ability grouping? What are the alternatives?