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Elise Castillo – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2024
Little research examines the experiences and perspectives of Asian American parents who participate in K-12 desegregation efforts, such as magnet schools. Conceptually framed by research on Asian American racialization, this qualitative case study investigates 10 Asian American parents in metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut; and the motivations…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Elementary Secondary Education, Magnet Schools, School Desegregation
Elizabeth Setren – National Bureau of Economic Research, 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: Suburban Schools, Diversity, Outcomes of Education, Voluntary Desegregation
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Yerin Yoon; Shaun M. Dougherty – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Magnet schools emerged during the 1960s as part of an effort to desegregate schools across the United States. Their primary purpose is to provide appealing educational settings to induce voluntary desegregation through parental choices (George & Darling-Hammond, 2021). Some of these magnet schools operate at a regional level to…
Descriptors: Magnet Schools, Voluntary Desegregation, Enrollment Trends, Public Schools
Charles 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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Taylor, Kendra; Anderson, Jeremy; Frankenberg, Erica – Peabody Journal of Education, 2019
Since the Supreme Court's 2007 "Parents Involved" decision, school districts have been pursuing integration in more legally and politically charged environments. The retreat of the federal government in the racial integration of schools is well documented, but less understood is what local school districts are doing to fill that void.…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Residential Patterns, School Desegregation
Peppars, Justin Osiris – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Author conducted a policy analysis of the Voluntary Desegregation Policy in the Bakersfield City School District. The study was a quantitative analysis regarding compliance on reduction of high concentration of Black and Hispanic students and integrating them with students in highly concentrated White schools. The Voluntary Desegregation…
Descriptors: Voluntary Desegregation, School Districts, Urban Schools, Policy Analysis