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Busing to Opportunity? The Impacts of the METCO Voluntary School Desegregation Program on Urban Students of Color. Working Paper 32864
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Elizabeth Setren – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
School assignment policies are a key lever to increase access to high performing schools and to promote racial and socioeconomic integration. For over 50 years, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) has bussed students of color from Boston, Massachusetts to relatively wealthier and predominantly White suburbs. Using a…
Descriptors: Busing, Racial Integration, School Desegregation, Desegregation Effects
The Impact of Increased Exposure of Diversity on Suburban Students' Outcomes: An Analysis of the METCO Voluntary Desegregation Program. EdWorkingPaper No. 25-1215
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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
From Forced Busing to Free Choice in Public Schools: Quasi-Experimental Evidence of Individual and General Effects. NBER Working Paper No. 11969
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Lavy, Victor – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2006
In 1994 the city of Tel Aviv replaced its existing school integration program based on inter-district busing, with a new program that allowed students to choose freely between schools in and out of district. This paper explores the impact of this program on high school outcomes while distinguishing the effect of choice on individual students from…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Disadvantaged Youth, Busing, School Desegregation