Examining the Re-Segregation of Public Schools in the U.S.: School Choice and Whites’ Preferences
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Bielamowicz, Rebecca
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology
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- Although the expansion of school choice options in the U.S. has been widely discussed, few studies have examined their impact on racial segregation in traditional public schools. I study this relationship by examining changes in levels of White-Black, White-Hispanic, and White-Asian segregation of school-age children in schools and their catchment areas between 2000 and 2010 in the 22 largest school districts in the U.S. Findings show that schools have higher levels of segregation than their corresponding catchment areas and that school segregation increased in a majority of these districts during this time period, independent of changes in residential segregation. In a second study of over 20,000 schools in the 2009-2010 school year, I examine the factors that predict the enrollment of Whites in their neighborhood schools. I find that, net of a school’s quality, the racial composition of the catchment area continues to have a significant effect on White enrollment.
- Date of publication
- August 2018
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- Mouw, Ted
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
- Graduation year
- 2018
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