Coloring Outside the Lines: Racial Segregation in Public Schools and Their Attendance Boundaries
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Deenesh Sohoni, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of William and Mary. His main fields of interest are sociology of education, immigration and assimilation, racial and economic segregation, and intermarriage. He is currently engaged in a project that examines the role of race in producing socioeconomic segregation in public schools. He is also investigating the role of antimiscegenation laws in shaping Asian identity and the impact of immigrants on Asian American marriage..., Salvatore Saporito, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, College of William and Mary. His main fields of interest are sociology of education, stratification, racial and economic segregation, human geography, and areal interpolation methods. He uses GIS software and census data to assess the accuracy of various ways of assigning data from one set of geographic boundaries to a second, incongruent set of boundaries. These approaches are used to determine if poverty rates in school... |
| ANO | 2006 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Sociology of Education |
| ISSN | 0038-0407 |
| E-ISSN | 1939-8573 |
| EDITORA | SAGE Publications |
| DOI | 10.1177/003804070607900201 |
| CITAÇÕES | 32 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
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Resumo
Scholars have debated whether students' enrollment in private schools changes levels of racial segregation across urban school districts. The authors examine this issue by comparing the actual racial composition of schools with the racial composition of school-aged children living in the corresponding attendance areas. They do so by linking maps of school attendance boundaries with 2000 census data, the Common Core of Data, and the Private School Survey for the 22 largest U.S. school districts. The results show that public schools would be less racially segregated if all children living in a school district attended their neighborhood schools. In addition, private, magnet, and charter schools contribute to overall racial segregation within many school districts. The effects are particularly striking for segregation between white and Hispanic children. Finally, a few school districts with desegregation policies have succeeded in reducing racial segregation. The analyses contribute to debates regarding recent proposals to eliminate desegregation programs while simultaneously expanding 'free-market' educational reforms that promote students' mobility across public, private, and charter schools.