{"id":776,"date":"2015-08-18T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/?p=776"},"modified":"2015-10-13T18:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:56:30","slug":"school-segregation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/2015\/08\/18\/school-segregation\/","title":{"rendered":"We All Live With the Effects of School Segregation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_777\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-777\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2UpUn\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-777\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2015\/08\/21542729_bff00737c4_z.jpg\" alt=\"Macro-level segregation affects school diversity and students' outcomes. Photo by Michael Patrick, Flickr CC.\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2015\/08\/21542729_bff00737c4_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/trot\/files\/2015\/08\/21542729_bff00737c4_z-300x179.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Macro-level segregation affects school diversity and students&#8217; outcomes. Photo by Michael Patrick, Flickr CC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Public Media&#8217;s\u00a0<em>This American Life <\/em>recently aired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/562\/the-problem-we-all-live-with\">\u201cThe Problem We All Live With\u201d<\/a>\u2014an extended episode with <em>New York Times Magazine<\/em>\u00a0reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones on how racial segregation lives on into 21st century classrooms.<\/p>\n<h5>School segregation has been on the rise since the 1980s, leading, in part, to a wide achievement gap between Black and White students. Policymakers often focus on the moral achievement of <em>Brown v. Board of Education, <\/em>but racial separation persists.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/civilrightsproject.ucla.edu\/about-us\/staff\/gary-orfield-ph.d\">Gary Orfield<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gse.harvard.edu\/faculty\/susan-eaton\">Susan E. Eaton<\/a>, and The Harvard Project on School Desegregation. 1996. <a href=\"http:\/\/thenewpress.com\/books\/dismantling-desegregation\"><em>Dismantling Desegregation: The Quiet Reversal of<\/em> Brown v. Board of Education.<\/a> New York: New Press.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Minority students are much more likely to drop out of school, to be tracked into \u201clow-ability\u201d groups or vocational programs, and to face other barriers to achieving higher education. Ability matters for achievement, but so does the social structure of schools.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/works.bepress.com\/grace_kao\/\">Grace Kao<\/a> and Jennifer S. Thompson. 2003. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/30036974\">Racial and Ethnic Stratification in Education Achievement and Attainment.<\/a>\u201d <em>Annual Review of Sociology<\/em>. 29:417-442<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>We usually think school segregation really happens at the neighborhood level, but neighborhood segregation has declined since 1990. Instead, we see increasing <em>macro<\/em>-segregation\u2014patterns where minority groups are concentrated in certain urban and suburban areas. Therefore, entire schools or districts are more likely to see homogenous groups of students.<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.human.cornell.edu\/bio.cfm?netid=dtl28\">Daniel T. Lichter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sociology.msstate.edu\/faculty\/bios.php?id=754&amp;itk=bc4cb99b387c1b1b1b43c24e27fe3e92\">Domenico Parisi<\/a>, and Michael C. Taquino. 2015. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/asr.sagepub.com\/content\/80\/4\/843.long\">Toward a New Macro-Segregation? Decomposing Segregation within and between Metropolitan Cities and Suburbs.<\/a>\u201d <em>American Sociological Review<\/em> 80(4):843\u201373.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more on inequality in schools, check out the TSP White Paper \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/papers\/students-parents-college\/\">Students Squeezed by an Hourglass Economy<\/a>\u201d by Robert Crosnoe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Chicago Public Media&#8217;s\u00a0This American Life recently aired \u201cThe Problem We All Live With\u201d\u2014an extended episode with New York Times Magazine\u00a0reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones on how racial segregation lives on into 21st century classrooms. 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