Examines sources of influence on inner-city students’ initial middle school placements in English and mathematics and continuity and change in placements through the end of middle school
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Relation of Parental Involvement, Empowerment, and School Traits to Student Academic Performance
What is the relation of parental involvement in education to student academic performance? What is the relation of parent perceptions of involvement and empowerment and school structural characteristics to student academic performance?
Does School Quality Explain the Recent Black/White Wage Trend?
Whether educational quality can explain the break in the trend toward black/white wage equality.
Brown vs. Board of Education
History of Brown v. Board of Education
Ethnic Diversity and Creativity in Small Groups
Test the value of in-diversity hypothesis (that ethnic diversity produces tangible, positive effects on organizational outcome).
Notes: An Evidentiary Framework for Diversity as a Compelling Interest in Higher Education
How should courts address diversity in higher education?
High School Seniors' Instructional Experiences in Science and Math
To what extent are high school seniors’ instructional experiences affected by their social backgrounds and by the schools they attend?
High Standards in a Tracked System of Schooling: For Which Students and with What Educational Supports?
Equitable opportunity for all children to learn challenging curricula. Changing limiting beliefs of teacher’s methods.
The Effect of Childhood Interracial Contact on Adult Antiblack Prejudice
Does desegregation have any measureable effect on racial prejudice? Does childhood interracial contact have any lasting effect on adult prejudice?
Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law
To describe and explain conclusions about desegregation policy, especially to show how these viewpoints have evolved from legal doctrines, social and science research, and extensive case experience
An Organizational Analysis of the Effects of Ability Grouping
Examines variation in the quality and effects of instructional discourse across ability groups.
Individual and Organizational Predictors of High School Track Placement
What is the importance of school characteristics in the determination of track placement?
All Children Can Learn- The Unmet Promise: A Study of Ability Grouping and Tracking in North Carolina Schools
Analyzes instructional grouping practices in NC.
An Analysis of Elementary and Secondary School Choice
How characteristics of students, their families, and schools affect the school choices made across public, religious, and independent schools.
Classroom Structure, Functioning, and Student Outcomes: An Organizational-Cultural Approach to Classroom Research
The relations between classroom organization characteristics and student education outcomes, with a focus on the classroom functioning mechanism.
Two Cities' Tracking and Within-School Segregation
Examined how grouping practices can create within-school segregation that discriminates against Black and Latino students.
Matchmaking: The Dynamics of High School Tracking Decisions
Examines how educators frame tracking decisions.
Review of Research on School Desegregation's Impact on Elementary and Secondary School Students
Review of the literature on the impact of school desegregation. Focus on methodological and other problems that typify work in this area.
Racial and Economic Segregation and Educational Outcomes: One Tale-Two Cities
Racial & economic segregation of public schools in Philadelphia and Houston.
Overrepresentation of Minority Students in Special Education: A Continuing Debate
Review critically the minority overrepresentation problem from a historical perspective.
Ethnicity, Neighborhoods, and Human Capital Externalities
Investigates the link between ethnic externality and ethnic neighborhoods
Why Desegregate? The Effect of School Desegregation on Adult Occupational Desegregation of African Americans, Whites and Hispanics
Studies the relationship between attending desegregated high schools and desegregated adult workplaces.
The Continuing Significance of Desegregation: School Racial Composition and African American Inclusion in American Society
Summarizes research on the long term consequences of desegregation.
The Promise of Brown and the Reality of Academic Groups: The Tracks of My Tears
Examines the antecedents of academic tracking and ability grouping in America and reviews the justification for these concepts in public schools.
Off The Track
Impact of current tracking practices and impacts. Showing how these practices are harming millions of students and our society.
Winter Setback: The Racial Composition of Schools and Learning to Read
How the racial composition of schools affects children’s cognitive growth during the first two years of school for youngsters in the BSS.
Alternative Uses of Ability Grouping in Secondary Schools: Can We Bring High-Quality Instruction to Low-Ability Classes?
Explores possible instances of high-quality instruction in low-ability classes.
Effects of School Restructuring on the Achievement and Engagement of Middle-Grade Students
How differences in the organization of schools influence the learning and behavior of students who attend the schools?
Race and School Quality Since Brown vs. Board of Education
Analyzes racial disparities in school quality since the 1950s and the implications of differential school quality for labor market outcomes (wage gap)
Summer Setback: Race, Poverty, School Composition, and Mathematics Achievement in the First Two Years of School
Test score changes over the summer when school is closed to estimate “home” influences.
The Variable Effects of High School Tracking
Analyzes how the structure of the tracking system is related to differences in achievement.
The Organization of Students for Instruction in the Middle School
The structure of tracking systems and the process of assigning students to tracks for instruction at a critical point in schooling, the middle school.
Middle School Ability Grouping and Student Achievement in Science and Mathematics
Effects of middle school ability grouping on cognitive achievements in mathematics and science.
The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Segregation on the Achievement Gap in California High Schools
Examines the extent and impact of racial and ethnic segregation in CA HS during the 1988-1989 school years.
Multicultural Education: Its Effects on Students' Racial and Gender Role Attitudes
Describes research on the effects of multicultural education on the perceptions, attitudes, and beliefs of K-12 students
The Organizational Context of Tracking in Schools
How do the organizational characteristics of schools affect the tracking system?
How Much Does a High School's Racial and Socioeconomic Mix Affect Graduation and Teenage Fertility Rates?
Examine the potential impact of racial and socioeconomic desegregation of schools on students’ chances of dropping out of high schools and on teenage girls’ chances of having a child.
School Desegregation and Intergroup Relations: A Review of the Literature
Assess the current state of literature on desegregation and intergroup relations
Desegregation and the Stability of White Enrollments: A School-Level Analysis, 1968-84
- Is the alteration of a school’s racial composition during desegregation associated with the subsequent withdrawal of White pupils?
- In relation to long-term effects, are the school-enrollment patterns of White pupils in the post-desegregation period distinct from those prior to desegregation?
White Flight and White Return in Norfolk: A Test of Prediction
Compares prediction of continuing white flight In Norfolk to what actually happened there during the 1980s.
The Causes of Student Achievement
Compare the influence of family background, school financial resources, and other possible causes of student achievement.
The Social Consequences of Growing Up in a Poor Neighborhood
Determine how much effect the social composition of a neighborhood or school has on children’s life chances.
Social-Psychological Processes that Perpetuate Racial Segregation: The Relationship Between School and Employment Desegregation
Study processes that perpetuate segregation.