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Direct linkReardon, Sean F.; Fahle, Erin; Jang, Heewon; Weathers, Ericka – Educational Leadership, 2022
Understanding how and why rising racial and economic segregation impacts achievement gaps is critical to closing them. Analyzing data from every school district in the U.S., researchers sean reardon, Erin Fahle, Heewon Jang, and Ericka Weathers evaluate how growing racial segregation interacts with unequal economic opportunities and contributes to…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Racial Segregation, Achievement Gap, Equal Education
Download full textReardon, Sean F.; Weathers, Ericka S.; Fahle, Erin M.; Jang, Heewon; Kalogrides, Demetra – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2019
U.S. public schools are highly segregated by both race and class. Prior research shows that the desegregation of Southern schools in the 1960s and 1970s led to significant benefits for black students, including increased educational attainment and higher earnings. We do not know, however, whether segregation today has the same harmful effects as…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Racial Segregation
Peer reviewedOwens, Ann; Reardon, Sean F.; Jencks, Christopher – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Although trends in the racial segregation of schools are well documented, less is known about trends in income segregation. We use multiple data sources to document trends in income segregation between schools and school districts. Between-district income segregation of families with children enrolled in public school increased by over 15% from…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Districts, School Segregation, Family Income
Fahle, Erin M.; Reardon, Sean F. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2017
This paper provides the first population-based evidence on how much standardized test scores vary among public school districts within each state and how segregation explains that variation. Using roughly 300 million standardized test score records in math and ELA for grades 3 through 8 from every U.S. public school district during the 2008-09 to…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Scores, Comparative Analysis, Public Schools
Murnane, Richard J.; Reardon, Sean F. – AERA Open, 2018
We use data from multiple national surveys to describe trends in private elementary school enrollment by family income from 1968 to 2013. We find several important trends. First, the private school enrollment rate of middle-income families declined substantially over the past five decades while that of high-income families remained quite stable.…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Enrollment Trends, Private Schools, Family Income
Reardon, Sean F.; Kalogrides, Demetra; Shores, Ken – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2017
We estimate racial/ethnic achievement gaps in several hundred metropolitan areas and several thousand school districts in the United States using the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and reading tests administered to public school students from 2009-2013. We show that achievement gaps vary substantially, ranging from nearly 0 in…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Achievement Gap, Scores, Standardized Tests
