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Download full textCharles T. Clotfelter; Steven W. Hemelt; Helen F. Ladd; Mavzuna Turaeva – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
The decades-long resistance to federally imposed school desegregation entered a new phase at the turn of the new century, when federal courts stopped pushing racial balance as a remedy for past segregation, adopting in its place a color-blind approach in judging local school districts' assignment plans. Using data that span 1998 to 2016 from North…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Economic Status, School Districts, Desegregation Effects
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Direct linkLiebowitz, David D. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
In the early 1990s, the Supreme Court established standards to facilitate the release of school districts from racial desegregation orders. Over the next two decades, federal courts declared almost half of all districts under court order in 1991 to be "unitary"--that is, to have met their obligations to eliminate dual systems of…
Descriptors: Dropout Rate, School Districts, Desegregation Litigation, Federal Courts
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
Johnson, Odis, Jr. – Educational Forum, 2017
Schools do not receive much recognition within urban sociological research for the role they perform in shaping the demographic, structural, and social features of neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan areas. In contrast, this article links schools, and the racial avoidance that operates through educational policy, to the extreme economic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Race, Social Justice, Metropolitan Areas
Buck, Stuart – Journal of School Choice, 2016
Summarizing my prior work, the only book length treatment of the "acting White" phenomenon (Buck, 2010), I argue that while desegregation was both a moral necessity and a social good, the manner in which desegregation was implemented by White authorities led indirectly to today's achievement gaps. In the course of desegregation…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Program Implementation, Achievement Gap, Educational Attainment
Johnston, Joseph B. – Journal of School Choice, 2016
The widespread assumption in the United States today is that traditional urban public schools are failing. Market-based solutions, particularly charter schools, are seen as the way to improve urban education. How then can we understand a large urban district where educational actors have furthered a locally popular alternative vision? This article…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Education, School Desegregation, Desegregation Effects
