Search Results - subject:"School Segregation"

School choice and segregation: evidence from Sweden

Böhlmark, Anders; Holmlund, Helena; Lindahl, Mikael - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015

This paper studies the evolution of school segregation in Sweden in the aftermath of the 1992 universal school voucher … school segregation. In particular, it exploits variation in school choice opportunities across municipalities, and provides … descriptive evidence that in regions where school choice has become more prevalent, school segregation between immigrants and …

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Általános iskolai szegregáció Magyarországon az ezredforduló után

Kertesi, Gábor; Kézdi, Gábor - 2009

The paper looks at school segregation in Hungary by ethnicity (Roma versus non-Roma) and social disadvantage. We use … comprehensive data from the National Assessment of Basic Competences from 2006. School segregation is measured at various levesl: by …

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Are schools drifting apart? Intake stratification in English secondary schools

Gibbons, Stephen; Telhaj, Shqiponja - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

The issue of social segregation in schools has seen a recent resurgence of interest – in the US, UK and internationally – as the debate rages on about whether policies that expand families’ freedom to choose amongst schools encourage divergence or convergence in the types of pupil...

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Are Schools Drifting Apart? Intake Stratification in English Secondary Schools

Gibbons, Steve; Telhaj, Shqiponja - Centre for the Economics of Education, LSE - 2006

The issue of social segregation in schools has seen a recent resurgence of interest - in the US, UK and internationally - as the debate rages on about whether policies that expand families' freedom to choose amongst schools encourage divergence or convergence in the types of pupil different...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017205

Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field

Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Vigdor, Jacob L. - In: Education Finance and Policy 6 (2011) July, pp. 399-438

Research has consistently shown that teacher quality is distributed very unevenly among schools, to the clear disadvantage of minority students and those from low-income families. Using North Carolina data on the length of time individual teachers remain in their schools, we examine the...

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Why Are Ghettos Bad? Examining the Role of the Metropolitan Educational Environment

Furtado, Delia; Ross, Stephen; Bifulco, Robert - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2009

Relative to whites, blacks that reside in highly segregated metropolitan areas have worse educational and labor market outcomes than those that reside in less segregated areas. Using data from the 1990 U.S. Census combined with measures of metropolitan educational environment created from the...

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Immigration, ethnicity, and the loss of white students from California public schools, 1990–2000

Hook, Jennifer; Snyder, Jason - In: Population Research and Policy Review 26 (2007) 3, pp. 259-277

shed light on the implications of immigration for school segregation in the United States. The analysis indicates that …

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Chapter 17 Has School Desegregation Improved Academic and Economic Outcomes for Blacks?

Rivkin, Steven; Welch, Finis - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 1019-1049). 2006

A half a century has passed since the landmark decision Brown v. Board of Education (1954) overturned the doctrine of separate but equal in the realm of public education. This chapter attempts to summarize what we know about the impact of Brown on enrollment patterns and academic and economic...

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On the Measurement of Segregation

Echenique, Federico; Roland G. Fryer Jr. - EconWPA - 2005

apply the index to two well-studied social phenomena: residential and school segregation. We calculate the extent of … the percent of minority students within a school, commonly used as a substitute for a measure of in-school segregation, is …

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Peer Ethnicity and Achievement: a Meta-analysis Into the Compositional Effect

Ewijk, R. van; Sleegers, P. - Top Institute for Evidence Based Education Research

This study reports a meta-analysis on the effects of ethnic minority share in school on achievement test scores. Best evidence from the studies that have appeared thus far on this topic shows that these compositional effects appear small in general, but may be larger when the ethnic minority...

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