[Ias-public] The Institute for Analytical Sociology Seminar: Sean F. Reardon , May 11, 14:30CET, KO301, Campus Norrköping & online on Zoom

[Madelene Töpfer]

The Institute for Analytical Sociology Seminar

Venue: KO301, Campus Norrköping and online on Zoom (see Zoom link in the end of the email)


Thursday, May 11 @ 14:30CET

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Is Separate Still Unequal? New Evidence on School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps

Sean F. Reardon
Stanford University

Abstract:

U.S. public schools are racially and economically segregated. Prior research shows that the desegregation of Southern schools beginning in the 1960s led to significant benefits for Black students. Less clear, however, is whether segregation today has the same harmful effects as it did 50 years ago, nor do we have clear evidence about the mechanisms through which segregation affects achievement. We estimate the effects of current-day school segregation on racial achievement gaps using 11 years of data from all U.S. public districts. We find that racial segregation is strongly associated with the magnitude of achievement gaps in third grade and the rate at which gaps grow from third to eighth grade. The association of racial segregation with achievement gap growth is completely accounted for by racial differences in school poverty. Thus, racial segregation is harmful because it concentrates minority students in high-poverty schools, which are, on average, less effective than lower-poverty schools. Exploratory analyses show that segregation-related between-school differences in teacher characteristics are associated with unequal learning rates and account for roughly 20% of the effect of Black-White racial economic segregation. Further research is needed to explore mechanisms linking school segregation to achievement gap growth.


Topic: IAS Seminars
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