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Taylor, Kendra; Frankenberg, Erica – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Political boundaries have historically been used to both segregate and integrate populations by social characteristics. Researchers have investigated the concentration of poverty, yet less attention has been given to the concentration of affluence, despite growing income segregation of the affluent from middle and low-income households. While the…
Descriptors: Metropolitan Areas, Socioeconomic Status, Income, School Segregation
Yancey, William L.; Saporito, Salvatore J. – 1995
This paper describes the results of research examining the racial and socioeconomic segregation of public schools in two very different cities, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and Houston (Texas). Factors that explain the degree of racial and economic segregation and the consequences of this segregation for student academic achievement were examined.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Inner City
Prewitt, Steven W. – 2001
The history of San Felipe School District (Texas), 1894-1971, depicts a situation in which Mexican Americans had control of local schools. Established in the Mexican "barrio" of the racially divided border town of Del Rio, San Felipe resisted annexation to the Anglo school district and became an independent school district in 1929.…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Cultural Maintenance, De Facto Segregation, Disadvantaged Schools