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We are committed to generating and synthesizing
research on key civil rights and equal opportunity policies that
have been neglected or overlooked.
Well before the passing of the "Leave No Child
Behind" Act of 2002, which renewed the nation's interest in
K-12 education, The Civil Rights Project has been focused on critical
issues affecting this country's elementary and secondary students.
CRP believes that equal educational opportunity is a necessary prerequisite
to equal educational outcomes. Further, CRP believes that all students
benefit from ethnically diverse educational experiences. For the
past several years, a main focus of CRP's research has been to demonstrate
concrete educational benefits derived from attending diverse elementary
and secondary schools. CRP research in the area of K-12 Education
has been extensive with the hopes of having a broad impact nation-wide.
Our current research interests related to K-12 education
include:
- The effectiveness of Title I reforms
- High stakes testing
- Dropout trends and remedies
- The impacts and benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in education
- The racial disparities in policies and practices related to
special education and school discipline
- Resegregation trends and remedies in our nation's public schools
Our most recent work related to K-12 education includes:
- "Race in American Public
Schools: Rapidly Resegregating School Districts", published
in 2002 by The Civil Rights Project. This report looks at resegregation
trends in the country's largest school districts.
- "The Impact
of Racial and Ethnic Diversity on Educational Outcomes: Cambridge,
MA School District", published in 2002 by The Civil Rights
Project. This paper is part of a series of studies on what students
in diverse and more segregated schools learn both in specific
content areas and in preparation for adult life and work.
- "Private School Racial
Enrollments and Segregation", published in 2002 by The
Civil Rights Project. This report describes recent patterns of
racial enrollments in private K-12 schools in the United States.
Examination of private school racial enrollment patterns is particularly
important now, given 1) the increasing diversity of the United
States; 2) the fact that there are few white students enrolled
in the public schools of many central cities; 3) the fact that
private school enrollments are on the rise; and 4) current efforts
to legalize public aid for religious schools through voucher programs-efforts
that are based in part on claims about the superiority of private
education.
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