Sentences with phrase «data on desegregation»
What if there were a site that — for every U.S. public school district — tracked data on desegregation cases and linked it to trends in racial composition from 1968 - 2000?
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The Harvard Project on School Desegregation report examines both these findings and the assumptions upon which they rest using court documents, district and state - level data, and interviews.
Although some research finds that such benefits exist, the available data have not permitted researchers to confirm the causal effects of desegregation on nonacademic benefits for the same reasons that it is difficult to produce convincing findings on academic benefits: the nonrandom sorting of students among school environments and the real possibility that forced busing may produce effects very different from those of living in a racially or socioeconomically mixed community.
A Union County, N.J., judge has ruled that the Hillside Board of Education must turn over to the state data on its racially imbalanced elementary schools so that a desegregation plan can be implemented by the beginning of next school year.
Finis Welch and Audrey Light published a study in 1987 that used 16 years of data on enrollments and desegregation program status to study in detail the changes in white enrollment surrounding the implementation of 116 major desegregation plans between 1967 and 1985.
After exploring some different ways of measuring segregation, Rivkin also looks at data on the connection between desegregation and student achievement.