Crain, Robert L.
Researchers: Robert L. Crain
University Affiliation: John Hopkins University
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Research Question:
Integration effects on Blacks achievement.
Published: 1
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: Sociology of Education
Journal Entry: Vol. 44, No.1, pp. 1-26
Year: 1971
Findings:
- Students in integrated schools have a dropout rate one fourth lower than those in segregated schools. The dropout rate from segregated schools, is almost twice as high.
- Elementary school integration doors make a difference in rates of college attendance.
- Some of the effect of integration, but certainly not all of it, can be attributed to school quality.
- Respondents who attended integrated schools have had more contact with whites, have less anti-white feeling, and thus make a conscious effort to live in integrated situations.
- School integration, by bringing Black children into contact with Whites, encourages trust and optimism about how they will be treated.
- Person who attended mixed schools – one integrated one segregated- are the least happy.
- The effects of association with highly able or highly motivated students occur at high school level, while more deep-seated psychological processes which lead to feeling of control or “happiness” occur in integrated elementary schools.
- Integration has a stronger effect upon the educational attainment of males.
- Integration has a decisive impact on what a Black thinks it means to live in a White man’s world.