ERIC Number: EJ1444390
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 29
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ISSN: ISSN-2377-8253
EISSN: EISSN-2377-8261
Little Boxes All the Same? Racial-Ethnic Segregation and Educational Inequality across the Urban-Suburban Divide
Ann Owens; Peter Rich
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, v9 n2 p26-54 2023
Suburbs were once a haven for advantaged, White families to avoid city life and access high-status schools. This urban-suburban divide, however, has changed in recent decades as suburban communities (and their school districts) have diversified. This study provides an updated cross-sectional portrait of recent racial-ethnic segregation and inequality between and within urban and suburban school districts in U.S. metropolitan areas. We find that the urban-suburban divide remains an important stratifying force--a substantial portion of racial-ethnic residential and school segregation, as well as racial-ethnic inequality in school poverty and test scores, occurs between urban and suburban school districts. Significant segregation and inequality also occur between and within suburban school districts. Suburban stratification is a key feature of the geography of inequality, warranting theoretical and methodological attention.
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Equal Education, Urban Areas, Suburbs, Suburban Schools, Urban Schools, School Districts, Metropolitan Areas, Residential Patterns, Diversity, School Segregation, Student Diversity, Racial Factors, Elementary Schools, Grade 4, Data Analysis, Institutional Characteristics, Scores
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 4; Intermediate Grades
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Language: English
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