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2004 - 50 Years after Brown: Segregation in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools

Attribution: Moore, James
Researchers: James Moore
University Affiliation: Florida International University
Email: mooreja@fiu.edu
Research Question:
Example of a segregated metropolitan region that produced a segregated school system & defied multiple efforts at significant school desegregation.
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Equity and Excellence in Education
Journal Entry: Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 289-301
Year: 2004
Findings:
  • A high degree of racial (Black) residential and school segregation and a moderate degree of ethnic (Hispanic) residential and school segregation characterize Miami-Dade County.
  • Improving minority students academic performance must focus on the problems and issues that characterize minority communities and schools.
  • Magnet schools, while they have created quality education programs, have not been successful in substantially reducing the degree of segregation throughout the district.
  • White Hispanics, unlike mixed-race and Black Hispanics, experience decreasing levels of residential segregation that characterize black Hispanics and blacks in Miami-Dade County.
  • Despite numerous efforts aimed at desegregation, residential segregation – the primary barrier to significant school desegregation- remains entrenched throughout the US.
Keywords: BusingDesegregationHispanicsLatinosMagnet SchoolsResidential SegregationSegregationRegions: SouthMethodologies: MixedAnalysis Methods: Descriptive Statistics Sampling Frame:State
Sampling Types: NonrandomAnalysis Units: Geographical AreaData Types: Mixed-Longitudinal
Data Description:
  • Used information from the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, District and School Profiles of 2000 which provides statistical information on school, student, and staff characteristics, information on educational programs, and a summary of academic achievement as measured by a variety of state and district assessment programs.
  • Calculated dissimilarity index to measure the degree of ethnic/racial segregation in Miami Dade Public Schools
  • Previous Research that include Myrdal (1994), Murray (1984), Massey & Denton (1993), Orfield (1986), Dunn (1997), Nazareno (2000), Weinberg (1975), Nusheck (1989), etc.
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Archives: K-12 Integration, Desegregation, and Segregation Abstracts
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