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Stereotypic Explanatory Bias: Implicit Stereotyping as a Predictor of Discrimination
Whether a measure of implicit stereotyping is predictive of behavior towards a partner in an interracial interaction.
The Relationship Between Degrees of Poverty and Student Achievement
Determine whether there were differences in the academic achievement for 4th and 8th grade students at three different levels of poverty.
Tracking and Mixed-Ability Grouping in Secondary School Mathematics Classrooms: A Case Study
Trying to test if tracking produces systematic differences in provision of students.
Increasing Diversity and Persistent Segregation: Challenges of Educating Minority and Immigrant Children in Urban America
An overview of America’s racial and ethnic composition from the 2000 Census and the implications of increasing diversity for urban public schools.
Preservation or Transformation: Where's the Real Educational Discourse on Diversity?
How overlooking critical areas of diversity-related campus initiatives may preserve the very system that diversity advocates seek to transform.
Interracial Contact in High School Extracurricular Activities
Document and measure the extent of interracial contact within schools.
Special Education or Racial Segregation: Understanding Variation in the Representation of Black Students in Educable Mentally Handicapped Programs
Studies the effects of local racial/political-economic structures, school district characteristics and school desegregation politics on the number and proportion of black students in educable mentally handicapped (EMH).
Private Schools and "Latino Flight" from Black School Children
How Latino flight affects the resulting racial composition of the public schools?
Racial Segregation in Georgia Public Schools 1994-2001: Trends, Causes and Impact on Teacher Quality
Racial Segregation in GA Public Schools.
Education, Social Cohesion, and Economic Growth
Examines the relation between social cohesion, education, and growth. This paper focuses on the role of state schooling in reducing transaction costs by shrinking the “social distance” between individuals in the economy.
Diversity in Higher Education: Theory and Impact in Educational Outcomes
Explore relationship between students’ experiences with diverse peers in the college or university settings and their educational outcomes.
Classroom Composition and Peer Effects
The extent to which the composition of classes affects learning outcomes.
Diversity and Educational Quality
Why benefits of diversity are part of educational quality?
Buying Homes, Buying Schools: School Choice and the Social Construction of School Quality
What are the choices of the parents who advocates feel are unfairly privileged in the existing educational system?
Students' Precollege Preparation for Participation in a Diverse Democracy
How students’ precollege experiences predisposed them to 3 democratic outcomes.
The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Diversity on Educational Outcomes: Cambridge, MA School District
Impact of racial and ethnic diversity on educational outcomes
Teacher Sorting and the Plight of Urban Schools: A Descriptive Analysis
Determine how much variation in the average attributes of teachers currently exists across schools.
Texas Public Schools: Ethnic/Racial, Socioeconomic, and Linguistic Composition of Student Bodies and Academic Test Performance
What is the relationship between student body’s ethnic/racial, socioeconomic and linguistic composition with academic performance?
Who Goes Where? How Kindergarteners' Social Background Maps Onto the Quality of the Elementary Schools They Attend
Investigates link between children’s’ social background and quality of their elementary school
Sociodemographic Diversity, Correlated Achievement, and De Facto Tracking
Assess impact of achievement and sociodemographic diversity for tracking
School Composition and Peer Effects in Distinctive Organizational Settings
Reviews the research on school composition and peer effects from three comparative perspectives.
The Effect of Schools and Classes on Mathematics Achievement
What are the effects of secondary schools, teachers, and classes on mathematics achievement.
Measures of Multigroup Segregation
Derive and evaluate a set of six multigroup segregation indices.
Integrating Neighborhoods, Segregating Schools: The Retreat from School Desegregation in the South, 1990-2000
Examines the relationship between residential segregation, public school segregation, and private school enrollment in the South in the 1990s.
What Do Parents Want from Schools? Evidence from the Internet
The aspects of schools parents prefer and how these preferences will affect the socioeconomic and racial composition of schools.
School Composition and Peer Effects
Conceptual and methodological problems related to theorizing school compositional effect.
Segregation, Desegregation, and Integration of Chicano Students: Old and New Realities
1) What is the prevalence and effects of Chicano segregation?
2) What is the history of Chicano segregation and racism towards Chicanos?
3) What are the contemporary issues in Chicano segregation? 4) What has been or can be done to integrate Chicano students?
Immigration and African American Educational Opportunity: The Transformation of Minority Schools
Assesses the extent to which African Americans versus non-Hispanic Whites attend schools with children with limited English proficiency (LEP).
Short Circuits or Superconductors? Effects of Group Composition on High-Achieving Students' Science Assessment Performance
Analyze the group processes intensely in order to understand the impact of group composition on group functioning & the scores of high-ability student
The Positive Educational Effects of Racial Diversity on Campus
Link between diversity and positive educational outcomes.
Are Whites Still Fleeing? Racial Patterns and Enrollment Shifts in Urban Public Schools, 1987-1996
Examines recent trends in enrollment and racial composition in urban public schools. Does desegregation contribute to white enrollment losses?
Does Race Matter in Residential Segregation? Exploring the Preferences of White Americans
Examines whites’ stated residential preferences,not just for African American neighbors but also for Hispanics and Asians, to determine relationships between race and residential segregation.
A Diagnostic Analysis of Black-White GPA Disparities
Examine how race, family background, attitudes, and behaviors are related to achievement
Why Public Schools Lose Teachers?
Why Public Schools Lose Teachers? Understanding of the effects of salary and other school factors on teacher transitions.
Students' Attachment and Academic Engagement: The Role of Race and Ethnicity
Examines relationship between race and school attachment and engagement.
Is Diversity a Compelling Educational Interest? Evidence from Louisville
Evaluates how diversity affects the learning of White, Latino, and Asians students.
The New Segregation
Overview of US national demographic trends in school segregation and the results of research on immigrant children from Puerto Rico.
School Desegregation Policies and Judicial Trends in the United States
Historical overview of policies and judicial decisions concerning school segregation in the US, focusing on segregation of Hispanic/Latino students.
Race, Class, and Tournament Track Mobility
Examine pattern of track mobility. Do all groups follow the same pattern or are there different mobility regimes?
Subverting Swann: First- and Second Generation Segregation in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools
Effects of First and Second Generation segregation on the academic outcomes of CMS students.
Race, School Integration, and Friendship Segregation in America
Tests whether school organization affects friendship segregation in a national sample of adolescents friendship networks.
Relationship Between School Composition and Characteristics of School Process and their Effect on Mathematics Achievement
Explores the relationship between school composition and characteristics of school process and investigates their effects on mathematics achievement.