<Para ID="Par1">Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics linked to three decades of census data on immigrant settlement patterns, this study examines how the migration behaviors of native-born whites and blacks are related to local immigrant concentrations, and how this relationship...</para>

Rigorous courses are an important resource, distributed within schools, that merit attention as a central determinant of student achievement and future outcomes (Cook and Evans, J Labor Econ. 18(4):729–754, <CitationRef CitationID="CR7">2000</CitationRef>; Rose and Betts, Rev Econ Stat. 86(2):497–513, <CitationRef CitationID="CR46">2004</CitationRef>). Yet, black students are...</citationref></citationref>

Current policy and practice interventions have failed to address disparities in academic success by race/ethnicity or socio-economic status. In addition, as policy interventions to prevent racially segregated schools have stalled, progress toward reducing these achievement gaps has also slowed....