Is School Segregation Good or Bad?

Fifty years after the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, racial disparities in achievement are a robust empirical reality. Black children enter kindergarten lagging behind white children, and these differences grow throughout the school years. Even in affluent neighborho...

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Published in:The American economic review 2006-05, Vol.96 (2), p.265-269
Main Authors: Echenique, Federico, Fryer, Roland G., Kaufman, Alex
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
Children
Comparative studies
Correlation analysis
Education
Environmental factors
Hispanics
Interracial relationships
Middle school students
Minority & ethnic groups
Minority group students
Race
Race relations
Racial segregation
School boards
School desegregation
School environment
School segregation
Schools
Secondary school students
Segregation
Social interaction
Social Interactions: Consequences for Schooling and Employment
Social research
Socioeconomics
Student gender segregation
Students
Test scores
U.S.A
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Summary:Fifty years after the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education, racial disparities in achievement are a robust empirical reality. Black children enter kindergarten lagging behind white children, and these differences grow throughout the school years. Even in affluent neighborhoods, achievement gaps are startling. Including myriad controls to proxy for environmental factors, socioeconomic factors, and family composition, the test score gap remains essentially unchanged. The Brown decision provided unprecedented hope for a future of educational equality - a hope that has yet to be realized. Some argue that society should strive for integration within school not just across them. Within-school segregation is thought to be as important as segregation across schools in inhibiting the educational opportunities of racial and ethnic minorities. The authors measure within-school segregation as the extent to which students interact socially with other students of the same race.
ISSN:0002-8282
1944-7981
DOI:10.1257/000282806777212198