The Desegregation Efficiency of Magnet Schools

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6404763
AutoresChristine H Rossell (autor de correspondencia), Christine Rossell (Boston University)
Año2003
Volumen38
Número5
Páginas697-725
Fecha de publicación2003-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaUrban Affairs Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1078-0874 • E-ISSN: 1552-8332
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1078087403038005004
OpenAlexW2085887909
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas13

Magnet schools are an attempt to introduce market incentives into school desegregation policy. The analyses presented here assess the extent to which they have improved the effectiveness of desegregation plans in a 600-school-district national sample from 1968 to 1991. I find that adding magnet schools to a voluntary plan does not seem to produce any more interracial exposure than does a voluntary plan without magnets. Moreover, there are diminishing marginal returns to magnets. The greater the percentage of magnets in a voluntary desegregation plan, the greater the white flight and the less the gain in interracial exposure. The effectiveness of magnets also varies by structure

Business · Demographic economics · Desegregation · Economics · Incentive · Magnet · Microeconomics · Political science · Critical Race Theory in Education · Engineering · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Mechanical Engineering