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2004 - A Stranger in Two Worlds

Attribution: Simmons, Warren
Researchers: Warren Simmons
University Affiliation: Brown University
Email: Warren_Simmons@brown.edu
Research Question:
How has segregation evolved over the past few decades?
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Education Next
Journal Entry: Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 21-25
Year: 2004
Findings:
  • Segregation declined throughout the United States, especially in the South, between 1970 and 2000. However, the decline in segregation within school districts was partially offset by a growing degree of racial separation between school districts.
  • White school personnel used policies such as curriculum tracking and special-education referrals such as a means of sorting students by race under the guise of “ability grouping” or meeting students “special needs”.
  • Today segregation remains a fact of life in our nation’s schools.
  • Findings confirm the fallacy of equating integration with quality.
  • We must not abandon integration as a goal, but it is utopian to believe that schools alone can close an achievement gap that is the result of deeper economic and social inequalities.
Keywords: Brown vs Board of EducationBusingDesegregationSegregationRegions: NationalMethodologies: QualitativeResearch Designs: N/AAnalysis Methods: Content Analysis Sampling Frame:National
Sampling Types: PopulationAnalysis Units: IndividualData Types: Qualitative-Longitudinal
Data Description:
  • Talks about author’s own experience as an African American who lived through busing.
  • Index of Segregation graphs taken from Cloetfelter (2004).
Theoretical Framework:
Relevance:
Archives: K-12 Integration, Desegregation, and Segregation Abstracts
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