Publications: School Segregation

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NEPC Review: Think Again: Are Education Programs for High Achievers Inherently Inequitable? (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, October 2024)

NEPC Review

Margaret Thornton

February 4, 2025

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NEPC Review: School Segregation on School Report Cards: Who Are We Grading Anyway? (Urban Institute, September 2024)

NEPC Review

James Noonan

December 10, 2024

When Schools Spend Less, Do Families Spend More? The Responsiveness of Supplementary Education Spending to Changes in the Local Schooling Context

Resource Document

Thomas Downes and Kieran Killeen

July 4, 2024

The Potential for Land Use and Housing Reform to Address School Segregation and Educational Opportunity

Policy Brief

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley

February 13, 2024

NEPC Review: Integrating Housing and Education Solutions to Reduce Segregation and Drive School Equity (Urban Institute, August 2023)

NEPC Review

Andrene J. Castro

November 14, 2023

Consumer-Oriented School Rating Systems and Their Implications for Educational Equity

Policy Brief

Jeanne M. Powers

April 13, 2023

NEPC Review: K-12 Without Borders: Public School Students, Families, and Teachers Shut In by Education Boundaries (Manhattan Institute, November 2022)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski and T. Jameson Brewer

March 3, 2023

NEPC Review: The Ohio EdChoice Program’s Impact on School District Enrollments, Finances, and Academics (Thomas B. Fordham Institute, December 2022)

NEPC Review

Joshua Cowen

February 21, 2023

NEPC Review: Priced Out of Public Schools: District Lines, Housing Access, and Inequitable Educational Options (Bellwether Education Partners, October 2021)

NEPC Review

Erica Frankenberg

March 1, 2022

Charter Schools: Rending or Mending the Nation

Policy Memo

Henry M. Levin

September 9, 2021

NEPC Review: Toward Equitable School Choice (Hoover Institution, November 2020)

NEPC Review

Christopher Lubienski

February 5, 2021

Education Interview of the Month: Christopher Saldaña Interviews Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest Morrell About the Educational History of Harlem

FYI

Christopher Saldaña, Ansley T. Erickson, and Ernest Morrell

March 26, 2020

Investing for "Impact" or Investing for Profit? Social Impact Bonds, Pay for Success, and the Next Wave of Privatization of Social Services and Education

Policy Brief

Martin Carnoy and Roxana Marachi

February 4, 2020

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Suzanne Eckes and Julie Mead About Privatization and Discrimination

FYI

Gregory A. Smith, Suzanne E. Eckes, and Julie F. Mead

January 22, 2019

How School Privatization Opens the Door for Discrimination

Policy Brief

Julie F. Mead and Suzanne E. Eckes

December 6, 2018

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Noliwe Rooks on School Segregation

FYI

Gregory A. Smith and Noliwe Rooks

November 15, 2018

NEPC Review: Balancing Act: Schools, Neighborhoods, and Racial Imbalance (Brookings Institution, November 2017)

NEPC Review

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

February 8, 2018

NEPC Review: Renewing Our Cities (EdChoice, March 2017)

NEPC Review

Jennifer Jellison Holme and Emily Germain

June 20, 2017

Law and Order in School and Society: How Discipline and Policing Policies Harm Students of Color, and What We Can Do About It

Policy Brief

Janelle T. Scott, Michele S. Moses, Kara Finnigan, Tina Trujillo, and Darrell Jackson

June 8, 2017

NEPC Review: Differences by Design? Student Composition in Charter Schools with Different Academic Models (American Enterprise Institute, February 2017)

NEPC Review

T. Jameson Brewer and Christopher Lubienski

April 13, 2017

NEPC Review: Segregation, Race, and Charter Schools: What Do We Know? (Brookings Institution, October 2016)

NEPC Review

Erica Frankenberg

December 19, 2016

Research-Based Options for Education Policymaking - 2016 Collection

Policy Brief

William J. Mathis

August 23, 2016

NEPC Review: The Integration Anomaly: Comparing the Effects of K-12 Education Delivery Models on Segregation in Schools (Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, October 2015)

NEPC Review

Genevieve Siegel-Hawley and Erica Frankenberg

January 5, 2016

Diverse Housing, Diverse Schooling: How Policy Can Stabilize Racial Demographic Change in Cities and Suburbs

Policy Brief

Amy Stuart Wells

December 15, 2015

Investing in Equal Opportunity: What Would it Take to Build the Balance Wheel?

Policy Brief

Jennifer King Rice

September 15, 2015

Seeing Past the “Colorblind” Myth of Education Policy

Policy Brief

Amy Stuart Wells

March 20, 2014

Review of Our Immense Achievement Gap

NEPC Review

Susan Eaton

March 29, 2012

Chartering Equity: Using Charter School Legislation and Policy to Advance Equal Educational Opportunity

Legislative Brief

Julie F. Mead and Preston Green

February 21, 2012

Creando equidad: Uso de la legislación y la política de escuelas charter para alcanzar la oportunidad educativa igualitaria

Legislative Brief

Julie F. Mead and Preston Green

February 21, 2012

Schools Without Diversity: Education Management Organizations, Charter Schools, and the Demographic Stratification...

Research Brief

Gary Miron, Jessica Urschel, William J. Mathis, and Elana Tornquist

February 5, 2010

How Legislation and Litigation Shape School Choice

Policy Brief

Julie F. Mead

March 1, 2008

School Choice and Segregation by Race, Class, and Achievement

Policy Brief

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, Martha Bottia, and Stephanie Southworth

March 1, 2008

Race-Conscious Policies for Assigning Students to Schools: Social Science Research and the Supreme Court Cases

Resource Document

Robert L. Linn and Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2007

NEPC Review: Segregation Levels in Cleveland Public Schools and the Cleveland Voucher Program (August 2006)

NEPC Review

Gary W. Ritter

October 5, 2006

K-12 Race-Conscious Student Assignment Policies: Law, Social Science, and Diversity

Resource Document

Kevin G. Welner

January 1, 2006

Testimony on AZ's Desegregation Funding Mechanism Prepared for Presentation to the Sunset Review Comm. of the AZ Legislature

Legacy Publication

Alex Molnar

January 1, 2003

Diversity Enhances Education

Legacy Publication

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson

June 4, 2002

A Blow to Equal Opportunity Education

Legacy Publication

Roslyn Arlin Mickelson

January 1, 2001