Ruth Krebs Buck

Biographic Data

ID6924526
NAMERuth Krebs Buck
GIVEN NAMESRuth Krebs
FAMILY NAMEBuck
SIGNATUREBUCK R K
AFFILIATIONSPennsylvania State University
ORCID0009-0001-1333-2296
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR4
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes and Segregation in a Suburban Black Enclave

    Open AccessSarah Asson, Elizabeth Frankenberg et al.ARTICLEAmerican Educational Research…2026

    This study investigated the relationship between school attendance zone boundary (AZB) changes and racial segregation in Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland, a diversifying, majority-Black suburban district outside Washington, DC. We found that the district's frequent and widespread elementary AZB changes since 1990 were largely segregative, especially as its court-ordered desegregation plan ended. Our findings reflect a district in…

  • The role of noncontiguous attendance zones in shaping school populations

    Open AccessSarah Asson, Ruth Krebs Buck et al.ARTICLEEducation Policy Analysis Archives2024

    Noncontiguous school attendance zone boundaries (AZBs) have a unique, relatively uncommon shape that assign two or more non-adjacent residential areas to the same school. Given their ability to shape school enrollments by taking advantage of residential sorting, noncontiguous AZBs have historically been linked to explicit efforts to both segregate and desegregate schools. In this paper, we use a novel, longitudinal dataset of AZBs and descriptive…

  • Attendance zones in the suburbs

    Open AccessSarah Asson, Elizabeth Frankenberg et al.ARTICLEPhi Delta Kappan2023

    While suburban schools across the country have become increasingly racially and economically diverse in recent decades, many remain highly segregated. School attendance zone boundaries (AZBs) play a critical role in shaping these patterns of within-district segregation. AZBs are especially important in suburban areas with growing and diversifying student populations. Using novel, longitudinal AZB data dating back to 1990, authors Sarah Asson, Eri…

  • Demographic Change and School Attendance Zone Boundary Changes

    Open AccessElizabeth Frankenberg, C S Fowler et al.ARTICLERSF The Russell Sage Foundation…2023Cited by: 5References: 10

    We analyze the relationship between residential populations, school attendance zone boundaries (AZBs), and school enrollments in two large, countywide suburban districts, Fairfax County, Virginia, and Montgomery County, Maryland, from 1990 to 2010. A steep decline in white, school-age children and an increase in black, Hispanic, and Asian children in both neighborhoods and the schools that serve them suggests that white households reluctant to se…