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1989 - Finding Niches: Desegregated Students Sixteen Years Later

Attribution: Crain, Robert L., Hawes, Jennifer, Miller, Randi, & Peichert, Janet
Researchers: Janet PeichertJennifer HawesRandi MillerRobert L. Crain
University Affiliation: Columbia University
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Research Question:
Compares educational attainment and present attitudes of young black adults who did and did not participate in a desegregation program.
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Columbia University
Journal Entry: January
Year: 1989
Findings:
  • Attending suburban schools reduced High School dropout rates, increased adult contacts with whites socially and increased the number of blacks choosing to live in interracial housing (male).
  • Male participants had fewer difficulties with police and perceive less discrimination in colleges and in employment.
  • Female participants were less likely to have a child before age 18.
  • Desegregated male students are considerably more likely to succeed in college.
Keywords: Academic AchievementContact TheoryDesegregationHigh SchoolOutcomesSegregationRegions: NortheastMethodologies: MixedAnalysis Methods: Regression Sampling Frame:Local
Sampling Types: RandomAnalysis Units: StudentData Types: Mixed-Longitudinal
Data Description:
  • Experiment in Hartford, Connecticut in 1966 were a group of students were desegregated in early elementary school using a randomized experimental design- two groups were selected randomly, one to attend desegregated schools, the other to remain in segregated schools.
  • Students were nearly all American Blacks; a few were of Puerto Rican or West Indian ancestry.
  • Follow up after they graduated Hartford Public School
  • 1260 students–> treatment group, 1353 –> control group
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Archives: K-12 Integration, Desegregation, and Segregation Abstracts
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