ERIC Number: ED587155
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 46
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-
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School Opportunity Hoarding? Racial Segregation and Access to High Growth Schools
Hanselman, Paul; Fiel, Jeremy E.
Grantee Submission
Persistent school segregation may allow advantaged groups to hoard educational opportunities and consign minority students to lower-quality educational experiences. Although minority students are concentrated in low-achieving schools, relatively little previous research directly links segregation to measures of school quality based on student achievement growth, which more plausibly reflect learning opportunities. Using a dataset of public elementary schools in California, this study provides the first analysis detailing the distribution of a growth-based measure of school quality using standard inequality indices, allowing disparities to be decomposed across geographic and organizational scales. We find mixed support for the school opportunity hoarding hypothesis. We find small White and Asian advantages in access to high-growth schools, but most of the inequality in exposure to school growth is within racial groups. Growth-based disparities both between and within groups tend to be on a more local scale than disparities in absolute achievement levels, focusing attention on within-district policies to mitigate school-based inequalities in opportunities to learn. [This paper was published in "Social Forces" v95 n3 p1077-1104 2017.]
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, School Segregation, Access to Education, Educational Opportunities, Minority Group Students, Educational Quality, Elementary School Students, Equal Education, Inclusion, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Elementary Schools, Achievement Tests, Standardized Tests
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED); Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) (NIH)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: California
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Stanford Achievement Tests
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305B120013; P01HD065704