ERIC Number: EJ1323553
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 16
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Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Public Support for School Integration
Carlson, Deven; Bell, Elizabeth
AERA Open, v7 n1 Jan-Dec 2021
Polling data routinely indicate broad support for the concept of diverse schools, but integration initiatives--both racial and socioeconomic--regularly encounter significant opposition. We leverage a nationally representative survey experiment to provide novel evidence on public support for integration initiatives. Specifically, we present respondents with a hypothetical referendum where we provide information on two policy options for assigning students to schools: (1) a residence-based assignment option and (2) an option designed to achieve stated racial/ethnic or socioeconomic diversity targets, with respondents randomly assigned to the racial/ethnic or socioeconomic diversity option. After calculating public support and average willingness-to-pay, our results demonstrate a clear plurality of the public preferring residence-based assignment to the racial diversity initiative, but a near-even split in support for residence-based assignment and the socioeconomic integration initiative. Moreover, we find that the decline in support for race-based integration, relative to the socioeconomic diversity initiative, is entirely attributable to White and Republican respondents.
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Racial Integration, National Surveys, Student Diversity, Race, Ethnicity, Educational Policy, Whites, Political Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, School Districts, Achievement Tests, Proximity, Institutional Characteristics, Community Characteristics, Voting, Place of Residence, School Location, Social Integration, Family Income
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Brown v Board of Education; Parents Involved in Community Schools v Seattle School District No 1; Meredith v Jefferson County Board of Education
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