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In 1954 the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that separate schools for black and white children were 'inherently unequal.' This paper studies whether the desegregation plans of the next 30 years in fact benefited the black students for whom the plans were designed. Analysis of data from...
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chapter, I investigate the extent to which economic models of segregation, information-based discrimination, peer dynamics … consistent with the time-series data. Segregation and models of discrimination both contradict the trends in important ways. …
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School assignment policies are a key lever to increase access to high performing schools and to promote racial and socioeconomic integration. For over 50 years, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) has bussed students of color from Boston, Massachusetts to relatively...
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tests. Racial segregation is frequently pointed out as one of the main factors behind this situation in the international … literature. We studied the effects of racial segregation on the black-white score gap for 5th-grade students in Brazil. Even … after the inclusion of several control variables, we found that the higher school racial segregation is, the higher the …
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