Much of the literature on racial and ethnic educational inequality focuses on the contrast
between black and Hispanic students in urban areas and white suburban students. This …

Persistent school segregation means not only that children of different racial and ethnic
backgrounds attend different schools but also that their schools are unequal in performance …

Increasing constraints placed on race-based school diversification have shifted attention to
socioeconomic desegregation. Although past research suggests that socioeconomic …

Race, class, neighborhood, and school quality are all highly interrelated in the US
educational system. In the last decade a new factor has come into play, the option of …

Research shows that exposure to local neighborhood violence is associated with students'
behavior and engagement in the classroom. Given the social nature of schooling, these …

Abstract In June 2006, the US Supreme Court agreed to review two related cases originating
from school districts in Louisville, Kentucky and Seattle, Washington that involved voluntarily …

A number of public school districts in the United States have adopted income-based
integration policies—policies that use measures of family income or socioeconomic status …

This article explores the institutional dynamics that contribute to educational inequality within
Nordic cities. The persistent issue of social inequality in education remains a prominent …

What is to be done about the manifold problems associated with" high-poverty"'elementary
and secondary schools? Fundamentally, there are two basic strategies available: improve …

The decision handed down by the US Supreme Court in Parents Involved in Community
Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (2007) has forced school districts to begin thinking of …