ERIC Number: ED277793
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986-Sep
Pages: 28
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Are American Schools Resegregating in the Reagan Era? A Statistical Analysis of Segregation Levels from 1980-1984. Working Paper No. 14.
Orfield, Gary; Monfort, Franklin
Analysis of the United States Department of Education's racial enrollment statistics for the 1980-84 period shows no significant increase in the segregation of black students in the U.S. For black students, the data suggest that the courts ignored the current Administration's policies against mandatory desegregation, and that the trends in segregation were very similar to what occurred during the Carter Administration. One of the measures used showed a slight increase in integration in the south during the first Reagan term. The data on Hispanic students show a continuation of a long-term trend of increasing school segregation in all regions of the country. Hispanics are now more isolated from non-Hispanic whites than are black students. Rapidly growing numbers of Hispanic students are attending segregated schools where fewer than a tenth of the students are white. White students are attending school with growing proportions of blacks everywhere outside the south and are in schools with higher average Hispanic enrollments in all regions. Black students continue to be most segregated in the northeast and midwest. Asian students attend schools that are far more integrated than those attended by other minority group students. (PS)
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL.
Authoring Institution: Chicago Univ., IL.
Identifiers - Location: United States
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