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Elizabeth Setren – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
Over sixty years following Brown vs. Board of Education, racial and socioeconomic segregation and lack of equal access to educational opportunities persist. Across the country, voluntary desegregation busing programs aim to ameliorate these imbalances and disparities. A longstanding Massachusetts program, METCO, buses K-12 students of color from…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Student Diversity, Equal Education, Desegregation Methods
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Swanson, Elise – Journal of School Choice, 2017
This article reviews the literature evaluating the impact of school choice programs on racial integration. Evidence on the impacts of magnet schools, voluntary busing programs, open enrollment practices, charter schools, and voucher programs is reviewed. The literature is mixed on this question, finding that the impacts of choice on racial…
Descriptors: School Choice, Racial Integration, Desegregation Effects, Literature Reviews
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Frankenberg, Erica; McDermott, Kathryn A.; DeBray, Elizabeth; Blankenship, Ann Elizabeth – American Educational Research Journal, 2015
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Education distributed $2,500,000 via a competitive grant program, the Technical Assistance for Student Assignment Plans, to 11 school districts. The grants and their local effects provide an opportunity to examine the new politics of diversity in public education. Participants cited a wide range of conceptions of…
Descriptors: Technical Assistance, Federal Programs, Federal Aid, School Districts
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Bekerman, Zvi; Zembylas, Michalinos – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2010
The present paper deals with Jewish and Palestinian teachers who work in an integrated school in Israel, and shows the challenges and possibilities from examining these teachers' powerful historical narratives in the context of in-service training sessions. It is shown how these teachers essentially remain firmly rooted in the hegemonic historical…
Descriptors: Jews, School Desegregation, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education
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Koedel, Cory; Betts, Julian R.; Rice, Lorien A.; Zau, Andrew C. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2009
We evaluate the integrating and segregating effects of three distinct school choice programs in San Diego. We go beyond the traditional question of racial integration and examine the integration of students by test scores, parental education levels, and language status. In addition to measuring the net integrative effects of school choice, we also…
Descriptors: Racial Integration, School Choice, Student Participation, Integration Studies
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Mabokela, Reitumetse Obakeng; Madsen, Jean A. – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background/Context: There is much literature that examines how the desegregation literature had implications for majority teachers and its impact on students of color. However, little has been written about the experiences of teachers of color working in suburban desegregated majority schools. Focus of Study: This article examines how intergroup…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, African American Teachers, Suburban Schools, Program Effectiveness