The Upside to One Urban District’s School Closings
African Americans Achieve in Income Balanced Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9728827 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Vanessa Garry (0000-0002-2841-0277, University of Missouri–St. Louis, corresponding author), Susan Uchitelle (Independent Researcher, St. Louis, MO, USA) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 194-214 |
| Publication date | 2020-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Education and Urban Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-1245 • E-ISSN: 1552-3535 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0013124518819758 |
| OpenAlex | W2907977238 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In 2003, in an effort to address St. Louis Public Schools’ (SLPS’) declining enrollment and debt, the interim superintendent closed 16 schools. In 2016, more than a decade since the school closings, the enrollment dwindled from 44,000 students to half that number. This study is an examination of the closed schools to determine if displaced African American children from the shuttered schools were better off as a result of attending the replacement schools. The findings suggest SLPS’ replacement schools were not better than the shuttered schools as was predicted in the SLPS 2003 Plan. Instead, we found displaced African American children who attended income imbalanced SLPS and charter schools in St. Louis had fewer children proficient on the state’s English Language Arts (ELA) assessment than their peers who participated in the Voluntary Interdistrict Transfer Program (VITP). The implications of these findings in the use of school closings as reform initiatives are discussed
Charter · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Interim · Political science · Sociology · Parental Involvement in Education · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Basics of qualitative research
Politics, markets, and America's schools
Charter Schools
Mapping Decline
Effects of Inequality and Poverty vs. Teachers and Schooling on America's Youth
Saving the Neighborhood
Majority African American Schools and Social Injustice
School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps
Closing and Opening Schools
Corridors of Flight, Zones of Renewal
Confronting the urban in urban school refor
When Work Disappears
Mapping Educational Inequality
The Effects of Desegregation on Student Achievement
The Racial Achievement Gap, Segregated Schools, and Segregated Neighborhoods
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |