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After Brown

Charles T. Clotfelter

2004,2011,2006

Overview

The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision,Brown v. Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would eventually transform American public schools. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of howBrown's most visible effect--contact between students of different racial groups--has changed over the fifty years since the decision. Using both published and unpublished data on school enrollments from across the country, Charles Clotfelter uses measures of interracial contact, racial isolation, and segregation to chronicle the changes. He goes beyond previous studies by drawing on heretofore unanalyzed enrollment data covering the first decade afterBrown, calculating segregation for metropolitan areas rather than just school districts, accounting for private schools, presenting recent information on segregation within schools, and measuring segregation in college enrollment. Two main conclusions emerge. First, interracial contact in American schools and colleges increased markedly over the period, with the most dramatic changes occurring in the previously segregated South. Second, despite this change, four main factors prevented even larger increases: white reluctance to accept racially mixed schools, the multiplicity of options for avoiding such schools, the willingness of local officials to accommodate the wishes of reluctant whites, and the eventual loss of will on the part of those who had been the strongest protagonists in the push for desegregation. Thus decreases in segregation within districts were partially offset by growing disparities between districts and by selected increases in private school enrollment.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: Academic achievement / Affirmative action / African Americans / Asian Americans / Attendance / Black school / Brown v Board of Education / Calculation / Catholic school / Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools / Classroom / Colleges / Common Core State Standards Initiative / Community college / Court Litigation / De jure / Desegregation / Desegregation busing / EDUCATION / EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General / EDUCATION / History / Education and state / Education and state -- United States / Educational Policy & Reform / Enrollment / Equal Education / Ethnic group / Extracurricular activity / Finding / Fort Wayne Community Schools / Graduate school / Higher education / Historically black colleges and universities / History / Household / Income / Institution / Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System / Integration / Junior college / Kindergarten / Magnet school / Matriculation / Metropolitan Areas / Middle school / Milliken v. Bradley / Minority group / Mixed-sex education / National Association of Independent Schools / National Center for Education Statistics / New York City Department of Education / Office for Civil Rights / Pell Grant / Percentage / Percentage point / Policy debate / Private school / Private Schools / Private sector / Private university / Public school (United Kingdom) / Public Schools / Public university / Race / Racial integration / Racial Segregation / Racism / Rates (tax) / School choice / School Desegregation / School district / School integration / School integration -- United States / Schule / Schwarzer / Secondary school / Segregation / Segregation in education / Segregation in education -- United States / Self-esteem / Separate school / Social Attitudes / Social class / Social science / Soziologie / State school / Student / Students' union / Suburb / Teacher / Undergraduate education / United States / University / Vereinigte Staaten / White flight / Year
• ISBN: 0691119112, 9780691119113, 9780691126371, 0691126372, 9781400841332, 140084133X