Coloring outside the Lines: Racial Segregation in Public Schools and Their Attendance Boundaries

Autor/inn/en	Saporito, Salvatore; Sohoni, Deenesh
Titel	Coloring outside the Lines: Racial Segregation in Public Schools and Their Attendance Boundaries
Quelle	In: Sociology of Education, 79 (2006) 2, S.81-105 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0038-0407
Schlagwörter	School Surveys; School Districts; Racial Composition; Racial Segregation; Private Schools; Neighborhood Schools; Public Schools; Urban Schools; Racial Distribution; Residential Patterns; Whites; Hispanic Americans; School Desegregation; Elementary Secondary Education; School Choice; Educational Policy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? School district; Schulbezirk; Rassentrennung; Private school; Privatschule; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Wohnsituation; White; Weißer; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Integrative Schule; Choice of school; Schulwahl; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik
Abstract	Scholars have debated whether students' enrollment in private schools changes levels of racial segregation across urban school districts. The authors examine this issue by comparing the actual racial composition of schools with the racial composition of school-aged children living in the corresponding attendance areas. They do so by linking maps of school attendance boundaries with 2000 census data, the Common Core of Data, and the Private School Survey for the 22 largest U.S. school districts. The results show that public schools would be less racially segregated if all children living in a school district attended their neighborhood schools. In addition, private, magnet, and charter schools contribute to overall racial segregation within many school districts. The effects are particularly striking for segregation between white and Hispanic children. Finally, a few school districts with desegregation policies have succeeded in reducing racial segregation. The analyses contribute to debates regarding recent proposals to eliminate desegregation programs while simultaneously expanding "free-market" educational reforms that promote students' mobility across public, private, and charter schools. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10