Genevieve Siegel‐hawley
Biographic Data
| ID | 4454586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Genevieve Siegel‐hawley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Genevieve |
| FAMILY NAME | Siegel‐hawley |
| SIGNATURE | HAWLEY G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0700-594X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Eroding Integration: 21St Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise of Brown
Drawing on Boddie’s adaptive discrimination framework, this article analyzes changes in demographic trends from 2002–2021. Our findings reveal a continuation of several longstanding trends, including increased racial/ethnic diversity in public school enrollment; deepening racial isolation within districts; persistent, high isolation for Black students; high but declining isolation for white students; growing isolation for Hispanic and Asian stude…
Policy Trenches: American Federalism and the Politics of Cross-Sectoral Action on Housing and Education Inequality
The structure of federalism in the United States links housing and education policy issues in significant ways. However, institutional frictions can make it challenging for policymakers to engage in “cross-sector” policy efforts that impact multiple policy areas at once. Further, decentralization means that it is difficult to measure policymaking attention across the US system, particularly at the local level. In this article, we use a mix of met…
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns
Recent efforts prohibiting race-related diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have informed localized public pushback narrating anti-equity campaigns. Emerging research and media accounts have largely focused on adults engaged with or against these efforts, with less attention on youth and their perceptions of these campaigns. To center youth voice, we analyzed 224 student newspaper articles published in Carmel, Indiana and Loudoun County,…
Disrupting disparities in school discipline
Schools across the country are grappling with vocal resistance to educational equity efforts, while disparities, including racial disproportionality in school discipline, persist. In this research-practice-partnership project, Adai A. Tefera, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ashlee Sjogren, and David Naff learned of the ways educators and leaders across three distinct schools adopted and engaged in widespread discipline interventions and practices that o…
Small advances and swift retreat: Race-conscious educational policy in the Obama and Trump administrations
The three terms comprising the Obama and Trump presidencies provide an opportunity to understand the evolution of race-conscious education policy in an increasingly multiracial, unequal, and divided society. Through document review and interviews with civil rights lawyers, government officials, congressional staffers, and intermediary organization personnel, we sought to understand how Obama officials envisioned and changed the role of the federa…
“All schools are not created equal: ” An analysis of public comments on school rezoning
Public opinion plays an important role in shaping the policy process. We examined public input in the form of written public comments to interrogate group expression and public values in school policymaking. Drawing on theoretical and methodological tenets of critical policy and critical discourse analysis, our study examined 3,339 written public comments across two school districts undergoing school rezoning, which is the process of drawing and …
The (In)Visibility of Race in School Discipline Across Urban, Suburban, and Exurban Contexts
Background/Context: Racial disparities in school discipline represent a long-standing injustice in U.S. schools. Students of color, particularly Black students, are systematically subjected to harsher school disciplinary actions compared with their peers. A growing body of evidence demonstrates the severity of the problem and the negative consequences of harsh punishment, particularly given that students who are disciplined are more likely to be …
Race and School Rezoning Criteria
This article shines a light on the dialogue around how redrawing school attendance boundaries has played out during an era of rapid racial change and growing inequality in Richmond, VA
The Disintegration of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee: School District Secession and Local Control in the 21st Century
In this qualitative case study, we explore the political impulses behind suburban secession from the 2013 Memphis-Shelby County merger, the largest school district consolidation in recent history. Decades removed from the Civil Rights Movement, during a period of stark inequality, colorblind law and policymaking, and a diminished understanding of education as a societal benefit, the central suburban rationale for secession, local control, carries…
Segregation by District Boundary Line: The Fragmentation of Memphis Area Schools
Boundary lines have long served as a mechanism to divide people, determining the quality of available resources, and ultimately, educational opportunity. In recent years, new school district boundaries have proliferated as local communities attempt to secede from larger school districts. In this study of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee, we extend prior research on school district fragmentation and consolidation by examining the largest American …
Reform With Reinvestment: Values and Tensions in Gentrifying Urban Schools
As cities across the country experience an influx of White and middle- to upper-class residents, new opportunities for the integration of urban schools emerge. Yet crucial challenges persist even when equity and inclusion are a focus for new stakeholders. This article explores the story of a largely White group of parents committed to investing in and reforming their gentrifying neighborhood’s elementary school. Given the numerous tensions that e…
Are We Segregated and Satisfied? Segregation and Inequality in Southern California Schools
Southern California is facing a demographic transformation that will become characteristic of the nation as a whole in coming decades. In this research, we present a historical review of the region’s attempt to address school inequity, recent enrollment and segregation trends, and an investigation of whether segregation still matters. Our results indicate that school segregation has increased, with inequitable access to learning opportunities and…
Mitigating Milliken ? School District Boundary Lines and Desegregation Policy in Four Southern Metropolitan Areas, 1990–2010
Over the past half century, law and policy have helped cement tremendous inequities into the structure of our cities. District boundary lines separating multiple, unequal school systems within a single metropolitan (metro) area play a central role in structuring racial and economic isolation. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, this study explores how patterns of school segregation are linked to desegregation policy and …
Race, Choice and Richmond Public Schools: New Possibilities and Ongoing Challenges for Diversity in Urban Districts
Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation
The political popularity of charter schools is unmistakable. This article explores the relationship between charter schools and segregation across the country, in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charter school students in 2007-08. The descriptive analysis of the charter school enrollment is aimed at understanding the enrollment and characteristics of charter school students and t…
Redefining Diversity: Political Responses to the Post- Pics Environment
This article examines the federal and local political response to the Parents Involved decision. At the federal level, developments suggest a reaction to Parents Involved that, since President Obama has taken office, has been largely supportive of voluntary efforts to promote racial diversity. The administration has also been seeking to enforce more traditional race-based civil rights cases. Locally, even though reactions to the decision are as v…
Segregation by District Boundary Line: The Fragmentation of Memphis Area Schools
Boundary lines have long served as a mechanism to divide people, determining the quality of available resources, and ultimately, educational opportunity. In recent years, new school district boundaries have proliferated as local communities attempt to secede from larger school districts. In this study of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee, we extend prior research on school district fragmentation and consolidation by examining the largest American …
Reform With Reinvestment: Values and Tensions in Gentrifying Urban Schools
As cities across the country experience an influx of White and middle- to upper-class residents, new opportunities for the integration of urban schools emerge. Yet crucial challenges persist even when equity and inclusion are a focus for new stakeholders. This article explores the story of a largely White group of parents committed to investing in and reforming their gentrifying neighborhood’s elementary school. Given the numerous tensions that e…
Mitigating Milliken ? School District Boundary Lines and Desegregation Policy in Four Southern Metropolitan Areas, 1990–2010
Over the past half century, law and policy have helped cement tremendous inequities into the structure of our cities. District boundary lines separating multiple, unequal school systems within a single metropolitan (metro) area play a central role in structuring racial and economic isolation. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, this study explores how patterns of school segregation are linked to desegregation policy and …
The Disintegration of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee: School District Secession and Local Control in the 21st Century
In this qualitative case study, we explore the political impulses behind suburban secession from the 2013 Memphis-Shelby County merger, the largest school district consolidation in recent history. Decades removed from the Civil Rights Movement, during a period of stark inequality, colorblind law and policymaking, and a diminished understanding of education as a societal benefit, the central suburban rationale for secession, local control, carries…
Are We Segregated and Satisfied? Segregation and Inequality in Southern California Schools
Southern California is facing a demographic transformation that will become characteristic of the nation as a whole in coming decades. In this research, we present a historical review of the region’s attempt to address school inequity, recent enrollment and segregation trends, and an investigation of whether segregation still matters. Our results indicate that school segregation has increased, with inequitable access to learning opportunities and…
Redefining Diversity: Political Responses to the Post- Pics Environment
This article examines the federal and local political response to the Parents Involved decision. At the federal level, developments suggest a reaction to Parents Involved that, since President Obama has taken office, has been largely supportive of voluntary efforts to promote racial diversity. The administration has also been seeking to enforce more traditional race-based civil rights cases. Locally, even though reactions to the decision are as v…
Race, Choice and Richmond Public Schools: New Possibilities and Ongoing Challenges for Diversity in Urban Districts
Policy Trenches: American Federalism and the Politics of Cross-Sectoral Action on Housing and Education Inequality
The structure of federalism in the United States links housing and education policy issues in significant ways. However, institutional frictions can make it challenging for policymakers to engage in “cross-sector” policy efforts that impact multiple policy areas at once. Further, decentralization means that it is difficult to measure policymaking attention across the US system, particularly at the local level. In this article, we use a mix of met…
Eroding Integration: 21St Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise of Brown
Drawing on Boddie’s adaptive discrimination framework, this article analyzes changes in demographic trends from 2002–2021. Our findings reveal a continuation of several longstanding trends, including increased racial/ethnic diversity in public school enrollment; deepening racial isolation within districts; persistent, high isolation for Black students; high but declining isolation for white students; growing isolation for Hispanic and Asian stude…
Choice without Equity: Charter School Segregation
The political popularity of charter schools is unmistakable. This article explores the relationship between charter schools and segregation across the country, in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and several dozen metropolitan areas with large enrollments of charter school students in 2007-08. The descriptive analysis of the charter school enrollment is aimed at understanding the enrollment and characteristics of charter school students and t…
Redefining Diversity: Political Responses to the Post- Pics Environment
This article examines the federal and local political response to the Parents Involved decision. At the federal level, developments suggest a reaction to Parents Involved that, since President Obama has taken office, has been largely supportive of voluntary efforts to promote racial diversity. The administration has also been seeking to enforce more traditional race-based civil rights cases. Locally, even though reactions to the decision are as v…
Mitigating Milliken ? School District Boundary Lines and Desegregation Policy in Four Southern Metropolitan Areas, 1990–2010
Over the past half century, law and policy have helped cement tremendous inequities into the structure of our cities. District boundary lines separating multiple, unequal school systems within a single metropolitan (metro) area play a central role in structuring racial and economic isolation. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, this study explores how patterns of school segregation are linked to desegregation policy and …
Race, Choice and Richmond Public Schools: New Possibilities and Ongoing Challenges for Diversity in Urban Districts
Are We Segregated and Satisfied? Segregation and Inequality in Southern California Schools
Southern California is facing a demographic transformation that will become characteristic of the nation as a whole in coming decades. In this research, we present a historical review of the region’s attempt to address school inequity, recent enrollment and segregation trends, and an investigation of whether segregation still matters. Our results indicate that school segregation has increased, with inequitable access to learning opportunities and…
Segregation by District Boundary Line: The Fragmentation of Memphis Area Schools
Boundary lines have long served as a mechanism to divide people, determining the quality of available resources, and ultimately, educational opportunity. In recent years, new school district boundaries have proliferated as local communities attempt to secede from larger school districts. In this study of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee, we extend prior research on school district fragmentation and consolidation by examining the largest American …
Reform With Reinvestment: Values and Tensions in Gentrifying Urban Schools
As cities across the country experience an influx of White and middle- to upper-class residents, new opportunities for the integration of urban schools emerge. Yet crucial challenges persist even when equity and inclusion are a focus for new stakeholders. This article explores the story of a largely White group of parents committed to investing in and reforming their gentrifying neighborhood’s elementary school. Given the numerous tensions that e…
The Disintegration of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee: School District Secession and Local Control in the 21st Century
In this qualitative case study, we explore the political impulses behind suburban secession from the 2013 Memphis-Shelby County merger, the largest school district consolidation in recent history. Decades removed from the Civil Rights Movement, during a period of stark inequality, colorblind law and policymaking, and a diminished understanding of education as a societal benefit, the central suburban rationale for secession, local control, carries…
Race and School Rezoning Criteria
This article shines a light on the dialogue around how redrawing school attendance boundaries has played out during an era of rapid racial change and growing inequality in Richmond, VA
“All schools are not created equal: ” An analysis of public comments on school rezoning
Public opinion plays an important role in shaping the policy process. We examined public input in the form of written public comments to interrogate group expression and public values in school policymaking. Drawing on theoretical and methodological tenets of critical policy and critical discourse analysis, our study examined 3,339 written public comments across two school districts undergoing school rezoning, which is the process of drawing and …
The (In)Visibility of Race in School Discipline Across Urban, Suburban, and Exurban Contexts
Background/Context: Racial disparities in school discipline represent a long-standing injustice in U.S. schools. Students of color, particularly Black students, are systematically subjected to harsher school disciplinary actions compared with their peers. A growing body of evidence demonstrates the severity of the problem and the negative consequences of harsh punishment, particularly given that students who are disciplined are more likely to be …
Small advances and swift retreat: Race-conscious educational policy in the Obama and Trump administrations
The three terms comprising the Obama and Trump presidencies provide an opportunity to understand the evolution of race-conscious education policy in an increasingly multiracial, unequal, and divided society. Through document review and interviews with civil rights lawyers, government officials, congressional staffers, and intermediary organization personnel, we sought to understand how Obama officials envisioned and changed the role of the federa…
Not “Citizens in Waiting”: Student Counter-Narratives of Anti-Equity Campaigns
Recent efforts prohibiting race-related diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives have informed localized public pushback narrating anti-equity campaigns. Emerging research and media accounts have largely focused on adults engaged with or against these efforts, with less attention on youth and their perceptions of these campaigns. To center youth voice, we analyzed 224 student newspaper articles published in Carmel, Indiana and Loudoun County,…
Disrupting disparities in school discipline
Schools across the country are grappling with vocal resistance to educational equity efforts, while disparities, including racial disproportionality in school discipline, persist. In this research-practice-partnership project, Adai A. Tefera, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Ashlee Sjogren, and David Naff learned of the ways educators and leaders across three distinct schools adopted and engaged in widespread discipline interventions and practices that o…
Eroding Integration: 21St Century Segregation Trends in U.S. Public and Charter Schools and Implications for the Enduring Promise of Brown
Drawing on Boddie’s adaptive discrimination framework, this article analyzes changes in demographic trends from 2002–2021. Our findings reveal a continuation of several longstanding trends, including increased racial/ethnic diversity in public school enrollment; deepening racial isolation within districts; persistent, high isolation for Black students; high but declining isolation for white students; growing isolation for Hispanic and Asian stude…
Policy Trenches: American Federalism and the Politics of Cross-Sectoral Action on Housing and Education Inequality
The structure of federalism in the United States links housing and education policy issues in significant ways. However, institutional frictions can make it challenging for policymakers to engage in “cross-sector” policy efforts that impact multiple policy areas at once. Further, decentralization means that it is difficult to measure policymaking attention across the US system, particularly at the local level. In this article, we use a mix of met…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (14 works) · School Choice and Performance (11 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works)