Segregation & desegregation experience of Mexican American students & how desegregation remedies promoted or hindered their access to equal education.
Current Selections
ClearThe Race Gap in Student Achievement Scores: Longitudinal Evidence from a Racially Diverse School District
Examine when and how the Black-White and Hispanic-White test score gaps develop in the early elementary grades in a California school district.
Math Acceleration for All
Discusses math acceleration and heterogeneous grouping. Summarizes study of a middle school program that eliminated math tracking.
Bridging Methodological Gaps: Instructional and Institutional Effects of Tracking in Two English Classes
Analyzes instructional and institutional effects of tracking in high and low track English classes
After Brown: The Rise and Retreat of School Desegregation
An assessment of how Brown v. Board of Education’s most visible effect – the contact between students of different racial groups – has changed over the past 50 years.
Immigrants and Education in the US Interior: Integrating and Segmenting Tendencies in Nashville, Tennessee
Examine the expression and pattering of integrating and segmenting tendencies in a local community of the U.S. interior.
The Color Line in American Education: Race, Resources, and Student Achievement
Outline current disparities in educational access and illustrate relationships among race, educational resources, and student achievement.
Inequality Segregation and the Overrepresentation of African American in School Suspensions
Relationship between school segregation patterns and the phenomenon of Black suspension overrepresentation.
Understanding The Black-White Test Score Gap in the First Two Years of School
Gaining a better understanding of the underlying causes of the test score gap.
Schools' Racial Mix, Students' Optimism, and the Black-White and Latino-White Achievement Gaps
How schools’ racial and ethnic mix of students and teachers influences black, white, and Latino students’ expectations, aspirations and attitudes.
Desegregation and Black Dropout Rates
Whether desegregation plans of the last 30 years benefited Black and White students in desegregated school districts.
Returning to Square One: From Plessey to Brown and Back to Plessey.
Revisiting and examining Brown’s historical significance and its education policy legacy.
Does School Accountability Lead to Improved Student Performance
Provide evidence on the expected effects of NCLB not only on student performance but also on other potential consequences. Controlled for student and school characteristics.
Designing Schools and Instruction that Use Student Diversity to Enhance Learning for All Students
Examines how schools and students can benefit from diversity.
Racial Segregation and Educational Outcomes in Metropolitan Boston
Examines segregation, demographic change, and educational attainment in the Boston metropolitan area during 1990s.
Multiple Facets of Inequity in Racial and Ethnic Achievement Gaps
Examine how inequitable the racial achievement gaps are and how much progress towards equity was made through changes in achievement gaps.
Fifty Years after Brown: The Benefits and Tradeoffs for African American Educators and Students
Examines the benefits and tradeoffs for African American professional educators and students that resulted from Brown.
The Relationship Between PreK-5 and K-5 Elementary School Size and Student Achievement of Grade 5 Students on the Mat7 in SC for the School Years 1996-97 and 1997-98
Determine whether a relationship exists between school size and student achievement in reading and in math in SC public elementary schools.
50 Years after Brown: Segregation in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Example of a segregated metropolitan region that produced a segregated school system & defied multiple efforts at significant school desegregation.
Difficult from the Start: Implementing the Brown Decision in the Kansas City, Missouri Public Schools
History of school desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Race, Social Class, and Academic Achievement in US High Schools
Looks at segregation within school,according to race,in core academic courses on student’s academic achievement & the race gap in each at the end of HS
Race and Academic Achievement in Racially Diverse High Schools: Opportunity and Stratification
Assess whether racially diverse high schools offer equal education and opportunities to students of different racial/ethnic groups
Access and Achievement in Mathematics and Science
Unequal access to math and science course taking and achievement as a self-evident problem in K-12 schools. Why do inequalities persist?
Justice Deferred - A Half Century After Brown v. Board of Education
Reviews the history of the racial desegregation of America’s public schools.
The Schooling of Children of Immigrants: Contextual Effects on the Educational Attainment of the Second Generation
Examine the effect of the class & ethnic composition of the schools that second-generation youths attend in early adolescence on attainment & drop-out
High-Stakes Accountability and Equity: Using Evidence from California's Public Schools Accountability Act to Address the Issues in Williams v. State of California
Analyzes the relationship between the school resources identified in the Williams case -teachers, textbooks, and facilities- and the state’s main measure of school performance.
School Integration and Residential Segregation in California: Challenges for Racial Equity
Analyzed elementary schools in five California metropolitan areas to examine the extent that the racial composition of schools deviates from neighborhood compositions, and investigate the potential for schools to promote racial integration.
The Perverse Incentives of the No Child Left Behind Act
Examines the incentives created by NCLBA
Boom for Whom? Education, Desegregation, and Development in Charlotte
A history of the use and demise of the mandatory busing plan in Charlotte, specifically the political and economic consequences of busing that facilitated the city’s economic boom and enhancement of civic capacity
Projections of 2003-2004: Supplemental Analyses Based on Findings from Who Graduates? Who Doesn't?
Computes the numbers of students expected to graduate from public high schools by the end of the 2003-2004 school year
Opportunity at the Crossroads: Racial Inequality, School Segregation, and Higher Education in California
Underrepresentation of African American and Latino high school graduates among students qualified for admission to California’s public, baccalaureate.
Unintended Consequences? The Impact of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision on the Employment Status of Black Educators
Impact of Brown on black educators.
The Socioeconomic Composition of the Public Schools: A Crucial Consideration in Student Assignment Policy
Brief overview of some of the research relating to the socioeconomic composition of schools.
How Society Failed School Desegregation Policy: Looking Past the Schools to Understand Them
Aims to understand why desegregation policy has failed to achieve the goals set out by Brown v. Board and how research on school desegregation has contributed to these shortcomings.
Tracking Trounces Test Scores
Benefits of de-tracking in U. S. high schools.
School Racial Composition and Student Educational Aspirations: A Question of Equity in a Multiracial Society
Are levels of school support associated with student aspirations? If associated is it constant across schools with different racial/ethnic compositions?
Reflections of an Expert Witness
Reflections of Armor’s experience as an expert witness in over 30 school desegregation cases