Segregation by District Boundary Line
The Fragmentation of Memphis Area Schools
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9734708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Frankenberg (0000-0002-9224-7734, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, corresponding author), Erica Frankenberg, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley (Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA), Genevieve Siegel‐hawley (0000-0003-0700-594X, Virginia Commonwealth University), Sarah Diem (0000-0003-0798-5220, University of Missouri, Columbia, Mo) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 449-463 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Educational Researcher (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X |
| Publisher | American Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3102/0013189x17732752 |
| OpenAlex | W2761656227 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 31 |
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 school district merger—and swift, subsequent suburban secessions—in recent decades. In Memphis, policy and political actors fostered decentralization and competition through the expansion of choices among new school districts defined by highly salient racial boundaries. These actions exacerbated segregation between districts with students’ racial and economic school-level exposure differing substantially across the new district lines. State and local actions that fostered the fragmentation of the consolidated district reduced possibilities for further integration and equity, with significant implications for students, families, and the larger community
Decentralization · Economic growth · Economics · Equity (law · Fragmentation (computing · Geography · Memphis · Metropolitan area · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Salient · School district · Sociology · Public Administration · School Choice and Performance · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
Demand for School Quality and Local District Administration
Toward Mobility Justice
Network Exploration of Interdistrict School Choice Over Time in a Mandatory Open Enrollment State
The Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Dynamics of Public School District Secession, 1995–2015
A Spatial Analysis on Charter School Access in the New York Metropolitan Area
Public School District Characteristics and the Formation of Longitudinal Interdistrict Collaboration Networks
The Demographics of School District Secession
New Localism in the Neoliberal Era
Do special districts divide communities
Spatial Mismatch and the Share of Black, Hispanic, and White Students Enrolled in Charter Schools
Exploring the Sub-state Intergovernmental Game
The injustices of school district fragmentation
Desperately afraid of losing white parents’
Educational Manifest Destiny
Left Behind
Unregulated Open Enrollment and Inequitable Access to Schools of Choice
Goals, Rhetoric, and (In)Equity
Dividing Lines
Reframing Suburbs
Justice-Oriented Visions for Public Education in a Multiracial Democracy
Structuring Choice Policy, School Segregation and the Two-Staged School Choice Process
The Disintegration of Memphis-Shelby County, Tennessee
The Ties That Bind
School Segregation in the Era of Color-Blind Jurisprudence and School Choice
Voyage into the Matrix of Race and the Truly Determined
Neighborhood-School Structures
Opting Out
Opportunity Hoarding and the Maintenance of "White" Educational Space
Must we bus?
School resegregation
Place Matters
Buying Homes, Buying Schools
Does Segregation Still Matter? The Impact of Student Composition on Academic Achievement in High School
Perpetuation Theory and the Long-Term Effects of School Desegregation
Economy and Society
Equality of educational opportunity
Economy and Society
School Segregation and Racial Academic Achievement Gaps
Splintering School Districts
Redefining Diversity
The Fractured Metropolis
School Segregation and Its Discontents
School District Fragmentation and Racial Residential Segregation
A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory
Measures of Multigroup Segregation
Decomposing School Resegregation
Inequality in Children's Contexts
Coloring Outside the Lines
Closing Ranks
| Unique citing works | 28 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,5 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |