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Frankenberg, Erica; Ayscue, Jennifer B.; Tyler, Alison C. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2016
Although demographic change is happening more rapidly at the elementary school level, the intersection of these demographic trends with the changing mission of high schools may offer the opportunity to reduce some of the persistent racial gaps in educational attainment. At the same time, when schools became diverse as desegregation took place,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, High Schools, Suburban Schools, School Districts
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Jacobsen, Rebecca; Frankenberg, Erica; Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
The 2010 Census revealed the extent to which today's metropolitan areas are growing increasingly diverse. At the forefront of this change are schools. Yet, research on school context continues to rely upon a traditional, cross-sectional bifurcation that designates schools as either diverse or not. This classification may be especially inaccurate…
Descriptors: School Demography, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, Racial Composition