Why are Schools Segregated? Evidence from the Secondary-School Match in AmsterdamAbility TrackingPolicy SimulationsSchool MatchSegregationWe use rich data from the secondary-school match in Amsterdam to nonparametrically decompose school segregation by ethnicity and by household income into five aOosterbeek,...
secondary schoolsparentsEnglandThis paper seeks an explanation for the persistent social phenomenon of segregated schooling in England whereby children from families with broadly the same characteristics of wealth, education and social networks are more likely to be educated together and therefore separate ...
Charlotte-Mecklenburgdecision authorizing the use of busing, this large system had few segregated schools for decades, while continuing to grow rapidly. The district was known for its historically positive leadership in pairing schools Magnet schools represent the first mainstream policy effort to combine...
but refused to support the armed struggle. “People are now planting bombs on the tramways of Algiers,” he famously told an FLN sympathizer following his acceptance of the 1957 Nobel. “My mother might be on one of those tramways. If that is justice...
Further, if segregated classes improve performance of minorities, wouldn’t voluntarily segregatedschoolsdo that as well? That, of course, is the second great irony of this issue: minorities fought for years to end segregation in schools, and finally got it, both in secondary schools and colleges...
one black, one white—separate and unequal,” African Americans are much more likely than whites of similar incomes to live in poor neighborhoods. This is tragic, Rothstein notes, because where you live implicates so much else in life—access to good schools, transportation, employment, and weal...
schools that are more supportive of their sexual orientation anyway. By way of illustration, he asks, “What if you were in a Muslim, a madrassa school? And you’re a woman? I would think you’d choose a different school.” In other words, schools should be segregated by school of ...
He argues that a desegregated school is not necessarily a better school for black students, noting that black students are often bussed to ‘the poorest and most violent white districts,’ while at the same time black students in majority-white schools can find themselves doing less well ...
Here are few things I really do miss, though: Diversity This is the biggest one. It does not feel great to walk down the street and see all white faces. Worse, to notice that your community is functionally segregated, with mostly white people patronizing certain institutions, and mostly ...
. . . many evolutionary biologists are likely well-intentioned people who wouldfight against many forms of disablism: forced institutionalization, forced sterilization, nonconsensual segregated education, and offensive language. However, these same people may inadvertently be reproducing ableist h...