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Reardon, 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
Reardon, 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
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
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Vanlaar, Gudrun; Reardon, Sean F.; Kalogrides, Demetra – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Most research on the middle school transition focuses on developmental and psychological changes around the age of the transition, and investigates or discusses the impact of such changes on academic performance, motivation and behavior in schools. In addition to intrapersonal developmental changes that middle-school students experience, they also…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Student Promotion, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students