ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEMS AND THE PERSISTENCE OF SCHOOL SEGREGATION: RESEARCH EVIDENCE AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS (2023)

National Coalition on School Diversity

This research brief looks at recent empirical research to consider what, if any, relationship exists between systems of accountability and the persistence of school segregation.

Advancing Integration and Equity Through Magnet Schools (2021)

Janel George and Linda Darling-Hammond

This report draws upon research findings regarding the components found in magnet schools that are both diverse and educationally effective and outlines evidence-based policy recommendations that can inform federal, state, and local efforts to help to design, implement, and sustain effective magnet schools that can foster integrated learning and positive student outcomes.

Re-Weaving the Social Fabric through Integrated Schools: How Intergroup Contact Prepares Youth to Thrive in a Multiracial Society (2018)

The Civil Rights Project

Schools remain one of the few social institutions that have the potential to bring youth together across racial and ethnic lines. New social science research demonstrates the importance of fostering sustained interracial contact between youth in order to prepare them to thrive in a multiracial society. This brief aims to summarize much of this new evidence, with special attention to its practical implications for the social relations and contexts within schools.

Charters as a Driver of Resegregation (2018)

The Civil Rights Project

This report illustrates how charter schools undermined the capacities of CMS leaders to effectively redesign student assignment boundaries to achieve the district's goal of breaking up high concentrations of poverty.

Southern Slippage: Growing School Segregation in the Most Desegregated Region of the Country (2012)

UCLA Civil Rights Project

Amid historic shifts in Southern enrollment patterns, the black-white paradigm that long defined the South has shifted to a multiracial one comprised of three large racial/ethnic groups. In this report, the authors find that the gains made during the desegregation era are slipping away at a steady pace and that African American and Latino students in the South are more likely to attend schools that are both racially and socioeconomically isolated.

E Pluribus…Separation: Deepening Double Segregation for More Students (2012)

UCLA Civil Rights Project

In this report, the authors summarize the most rigorous research to date showing that segregated schools are systematically linked to unequal educational opportunities. Using data from the National Center on Education Statistics, they explore how enrollment shifts and segregation trends are playing out nationally, as well as in regions, states and metropolitan areas.

Executive Summary (2012)

What We Know About School Integration, College Attendance, and the Reduction of Poverty (2010)

National Coalition on School Diversity

This research brief details the effects of K-12 school integration on college attendance rates, college graduation, and intergenerational perpetuation of poverty. (Research Brief 4)