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School Diversity We are committed to generating and synthesizing research on key civil rights and equal opportunity policies that have been neglected or overlooked. Why Segregation Matters: Poverty and Educational InequalityGary Orfield and Chungmei Lee. January 13, 2005 One of the common misconceptions over the issue of resegregation of schools is that many people treat it as simply a change in the skin color of the students in a school. If skin color were not systematically linked to other forms of inequality, it would, of course, be of little significance for educational policy. Unfortunately that is not and never has been the nature of our society. Socioeconomic segregation is a stubborn, multidimensional and deeply important cause of educational inequality.
A Public Laboratory Dewey Barely Imagined: The Emerging Model of School Governance and Legal Reform James S. Liebman and Charles F. Sabel. August 30, 2002 Research commissioned for the conference The Resegregation of Southern Schools. After decades of apparent decay and immobilism, the American public school system is in the midst of a vast and promising reform. The core architectural principle of the emergent system is the grant by higher level authorities---federal government, states, school districts---to lower level ones of autonomy to pursue the broad goal of improving education...
Ethnoracial, Linguistic, and Socioeconomic Composition of Student Bodies and the Academic Performance of Texas Public Schools Luis M. Laosa. August 30, 2002 Research commissioned for the conference The Resegregation of Southern Schools. The school system of the state of Texas has recently become the focus of considerable attention and a frequent topic of policy discussions, although there is no consensus regarding the effectiveness or dynamics of that system. At the same time, population growth continues to transform the state of Texas.
Shifting from Court-Ordered to Court-Ended Desegregation in Nashville: Student Assignment and Teacher Resources Ellen Goldring and Claire Smrekar. August 30, 2002 Research commissioned for the conference The Resegregation of Southern Schools. In the past few years, increasing numbers of school districts across the country have been declared unitary, ending decades of cross-town busing designed to desegregate schools in residentially segregated urban school systems. Many student assignment plans under unitary status rely upon neighborhood schools and parent choice options as mechanisms for student reassignment. Under these scenarios...
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