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Fiel, Jeremy E. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2022
Automatic admissions policies (AAPs, "percent plans") redistribute college-going opportunities across segregated high schools to diversify college enrollments, increasing opportunities at predominantly minority high schools. If students "game" AAPs by attending schools with increased opportunities, AAPs could alter racial…
Descriptors: School Segregation, High Schools, Racial Segregation, Blacks
Kelly, Matthew Gardner – AERA Open, 2019
In this article, I discuss the promise of geospatial techniques for education policy research and how increased attention to the historical context of spatial data can enhance that work. While scholarship utilizing geographic information systems has added considerable breadth to our understanding of education policy, recent geospatial studies in…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Spatial Ability, Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Distribution
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Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Frankenberg, Erica; Diem, Sarah; Welton, Anjale D. – Journal of School Choice, 2013
The bulk of research on the implementation of school choice policies has focused on how choice has been implemented in urban school systems. As of 2007, however, suburban students comprised more than one fourth (29%) of all students engaging in some form of public school choice in the United States. This article examines the implementation of…
Descriptors: School Choice, Public Schools, Suburban Schools, School Districts
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Mitchell, Douglas E.; Batie, Michael; Mitchell, Ross E. – Urban Education, 2010
This article examines a half century of housing and school segregation data in two large California school districts. Based on a review of both the methods and the substantive data available tracking the relationship between school and housing integration, the study reported here shows that very substantial school-level integration in these two…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Housing, Urban Areas
Hendrick, Irving G. – Aztlan--International Journal of Chicano Studies Research, 1977
While Mexican children in the cities were often segregated, the children of Mexican migrant farmworkers were totally ignored by state educational officials before 1920. While a state-directed plan for these children was started in 1919, local school districts continued not to enforce state attendance requirements among the group. (NQ)
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Attendance, Educational History, Educational Policy
California State Equal Educational Opportunities Commission, Sacramento. – 1975
This report contains information on the constitutional decision to prevent and eliminate racial and ethnic segregation in the State of California. The implications of the California Supreme Court decision on the constitutional duty of schools to eliminate segregated education are presented, along with the State Board of Education declaration of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation