Journal article
Effects of School Segregation and School Resources in a Changing Policy Context
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol.38(1), pp.43-64
2016
DOI: 10.3102/0162373715585604
Abstract
Desegregation policies have been rolled back across the country. Some advocates for dismantling desegregation argue that resources allocated to desegregation would pay off better if allocated to improve education in schools with disadvantaged populations. We test this claim by examining student achievement before, during, and after the end of court-ordered desegregation in Nashville, Tennessee. School-by-grade fixed effect models reveal no evidence that increases in a school’s proportion of Black students impeded achievement growth. Increased exposure to students in poverty curtailed achievement growth, but enhanced option schools, which bring extraordinary resources to high-poverty, racially isolated schools, compensated for the effects of concentrated poverty. Schools that became specialized magnet schools, however, did not contribute to achievement gains and in some cases curtailed growth.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Effects of School Segregation and School Resources in a Changing Policy Context
- Creators
- Adam GamoranBrian P An
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol.38(1), pp.43-64
- DOI
- 10.3102/0162373715585604
- ISSN
- 1935-1062
- eISSN
- 1935-1062
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2016
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Educational Policy and Leadership Studies; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9983979997802771
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