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Eduardo Tapia – Journal of Education Policy, 2024
Previous studies investigating how the school choice paradigm shapes school segregation have found that students' ethnic school preferences drive school segregation by leading students to rank and change current schools following ethnic homophily orientations. This study investigates an intermediate moment in which these preferences contribute to…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Educational Change, Grade 9, High School Students
Josh Leung-Gagné – AERA Open, 2023
Though schools do not track in Brazil, I find that racial classroom segregation in Brazil is on par with recent estimates from North Carolina high schools (Clotfelter et al., 2020). How does racial classroom segregation occur without tracking, and in a supposed "racial paradise," no less? Using national, student-level data spanning from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary Education, Grade 5, Grade 9
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Modin, Bitte; Karvonen, Sakari; Rahkonen, Ossi; Östberg, Viveca – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2015
This study investigates cross-cultural differences in the interrelation between school performance, school segregation, and stress-related health among 9th-grade students in the greater Stockholm and Helsinki areas. Contrary to the Swedish case, it has been proposed that school performance in Finland is largely independent of the specific school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Effectiveness, Anxiety, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Bunar, Nihad; Ambrose, Anna – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2016
An exploration is presented of how urban spaces, polarized by class and ethnicity, structure the basic conditions of emerging local school markets. The authors investigate how the distribution of symbolic capital, or "hot knowledge" of the market, affects schools, the market, and the urban spaces themselves. The study is guided by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnography, Compulsory Education, School Choice
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Sharma, Andy; Joyner, Ann Moss; Osment, Ashley – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
This study examines the impact of racial isolation on high school student performance in North Carolina, a state in the southeast United States. Our research goal is to investigate if increased isolation negatively impacts Black students' academic performance. Employing the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) dataset, we…
Descriptors: High School Students, African American Students, Racial Composition, Racial Factors
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Borman, Geoffrey; Dowling, Maritza – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background/Context: The Equality of Educational Opportunity study is widely recognized as one of the most important studies on schooling ever performed. The findings from the report have shaped the field of education, national education policies, and wider public and scholarly opinion regarding the contributions of schools and schooling to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Replication (Evaluation), Grade 9, Academic Achievement
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Garcia, David R. – Education and Urban Society, 2008
This article focuses on how parental school choices affect the degree of racial and academic segregation in charter schools. The research design allows for a direct comparison of the racial and academic conditions of the district schools students exited to the charter schools they entered. Parents choose to leave more racially integrated district…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Racial Composition, School Choice, School Segregation