«Long - Run
Impacts of School Desegregation & School Quality on Adult Attainments.»
Despite the challenges of isolating
the impact of school desegregation on student achievement, a small but growing body of research provides valuable evidence on the relationship between segregation policies and students» academic and social outcomes.
Not exact matches
School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the S
School desegregation reduced the
impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger
school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the S
school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban
schools and parochial
schools (i.e. church run
schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).
The
impact that the changing demographic composition
of schools could have on the achievement
of black students is not clear, especially given the difficulty
of isolating the effects
of desegregation.
Figure 2 looks at the
impact of LSP transfers on public
schools in the 34 districts that are under federal
desegregation orders.
With its findings on the
impact of peer groups, the report had an immediate
impact on
school desegregation, helping to spur the controversial busing programs that peaked in the 1970s and lingered into the 1990s.
See, e.g., Schofield, Review
of Research on
School Desegregation's
Impact on Elementary and Secondary
School Students, in Handbook
of Research on Multicultural Education 597, 606 - 607 (J. Banks & C. Banks eds.
I certainly applaud the
desegregation that occurred during the years immediately following the passage
of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and I quite explicitly say, on p. 75, that «careful studies show that
school desegregation has had positive
impacts on student learning, especially in the South,» a passage which must have escaped Kahlenberg's attention when he claims I «neglect» to point out a possible connection between
desegregation and southern gains.