Trent, William
Researchers: William Trent
University Affiliation: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne
Email: w-trent@illinois.edu
Research Question:
Important noncognitive outcomes of school desegregation.
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Journal of Negro Education
Journal Entry: Vol. 66, No.3, pp. 255-257
Year: 1997
Findings:
- Desegregated schooling has a positive statistical significant benefit for black students’ later earnings and occupational attainment.
- High concentrations of school poverty have strong negative consequences for the educational attainment of both African American and White students.
- All other conditions being equal, students attending the same school are likely to participate in the same information networks and thus to have similar opportunity paths and resultant outcomes.
- Students who have experienced desegregation schooling are more likely to continue to choose desegregated contexts, both in school and in other spheres of their lives.
- Desegregated schooling has important long-term benefits for minority students, especially in terms of its ability to open up economic opportunities for them.