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School Segregation in Metropolitan Regions, 1970–2000: The Impacts of Policy Choices on Public Education

Year: 2008

Type: article

Abstract: It has been argued that the effects of the desegregation of public schools from the late 1960s onward were limited and short‐lived, in part because of white flight from desegregating districts and in part because legal decisions in the 1990s released many districts from court orders. Data presented here for 1970–2000 show that small increases in segregation between districts were outweighed by larger declines within districts. Progress was interrupted but not reversed after 1990. Desegregation was not limited to districts and metropolitan regions where enforcement actions required it, and factors such as private schooling, district size, and inclusion of both city and suburban areas within district boundaries had stronger effects than individual court mandates.

Source: American Journal of Sociology

DOI: 10.1086/587150

Authors: John R. Logan, Deirdre Oakley, Jacob Stowell

Institutions: Brown University, Georgia State University, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Language: English

Topic: School Choice and Performance

Subfield: Education

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Reduced inequalities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development