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Download full textDanielsen, Bartley R. – American Enterprise Institute, 2017
Oftentimes, policymakers discuss school reform only in terms of its benefits to students. In this brief, researcher Bartley R. Danielsen identifies how more multifaceted reforms can not only improve educational outcomes for students but also revitalize communities by encouraging wealthy families to remain in lower-income areas, thereby raising…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Quality, Public Policy, Desegregation Methods
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We examine whether the legal decision to grant unitary status to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district, which led to the end of race-conscious student assignment policies, increased the probability that families with children enrolled in the district would move to neighborhoods with a greater proportion of student residents of the same race as…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Desegregation Effects, Educational Policy, Housing
Braddock, Jomills Henry, II; Gonzalez, Amaryllis Del Carmen – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: The United States is becoming increasingly racially and ethnically diverse, and increasingly racially isolated across race-ethnic boundaries. Researchers have argued that both diversity and racial isolation serve to undermine the social cohesion needed to bind American citizens to one another and to society at large. Focus of…
Descriptors: African American Students, Neighborhoods, Race, Elementary Secondary Education
Stearns, Elizabeth – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: Perpetuation theory predicts that attending a racially segregated school paves the way for a lifetime of segregated experiences in neighborhoods, schools, and jobs. Research conducted in the 1970s and 1980s linked racial isolation in high schools with later racial isolation in many social settings among African-American…
Descriptors: African American Students, Neighborhoods, High Schools, Race
Smrekar, Claire E., Ed.; Goldring, Ellen B., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
"From the Courtroom to the Classroom" examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States. As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a "general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening of the political forces that support…
Descriptors: Busing, Race, Public Schools, Neighborhood Schools
Berson, Ilene R.; Berson, Michael J. – Social Education, 2007
In social studies classes, there is a longstanding interest in how societies evolve and change over time. However, as stories of the past unfold, it is often difficult to identify a direct link between causes and effects, so students are forced to accept at face value the interpretations of economists, political scientists, historians,…
Descriptors: Models, Computer Simulation, Educational Technology, Social Studies
