This is a round-up of articles that address the relationships between school socioeconomic and racial composition and academic achievement. Several of them also address the relationship between school composition, school attendance zones, and neighborhood demographics. The original inspiration was an article about residential segregation in Iowa City, and their are some links that speak to that as well. Right now its a mix of peer-reviewed academic work and popular sources that draw on this work. I’ll try to organize it better when I have the chance.
General:
The Academic Consequences of Desegregation and Segregation: Evidence From the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (Mickelson- Academic Paper) (race-based integration)
In Defense of Busing (Daniels- NY Times Magagzine, Charlotte-Mecklenburg) (race-based integration)
Milliken, Meredith, and Metropolitan Segregation: Orfield, UCLA Law Review
Montgomery County Maryland (Washington Post)
Effect of School Population Socioeconomic Status on Individual Academic Achievement
Annotated Bibliography: The Impact of School-Based Poverty Concentration
on Academic Achievement & Student Outcomes
Closing the student achievement gap: The overlooked strategy of socioeconomic integration
The Cost Effectiveness of Socioeconomic Integration (Basile, book chapter).
Outside the Lines: The Case For Economic Integration in Urban School Districts (BYU Law Journal)
Socioeconomic School Integration Is a Worthy Goal, but Racial Segregation Presents Added Challenges
From All Walks of Life (Khalenberg)
Economic School Integration: An Update (Khalenberg, policy brief overview)
A New Wav of School Integration (TCF)
Boosting Achievement by Pursuing Diversity
Louisville: The City That Believed in Desegregation (The Atlantic)
Jonothan Kozol on Separate and Unequal Schools (Inside Higher Ed)
Segregation Now …
Sixty years after Brown v. Board of Education, the schools in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, show how separate and unequal education is coming back. (The Atlantic)
Revisiting the Coleman Report (Education Next special issue)
The Coleman Report (original 1966 Document)
Iowa City Schools, Landscape, and Segregation:
“This Ain’t the Ghetto”: Diaspora, Discourse, and
Dealing with “Iowa Nice”
A community divided: Racial segregation on the rise in Iowa City
The report that Little Village story is based on: http://www.icgov.org/site/CMSv2/file/planning/commDev/AIFINALAnalysis4-4-14.pdf
The report on fair housing across the whole state:
https://www.iowaeconomicdevelopment.com/userdocs/documents/ieda/Analysis_of_Impediments_to_Fair_Housing_Choice.pdf
Also note that there isn’t a similar report for the municipalities that touch Iowa City and which are included in its school district. But, you can use the racial dot map to focus in here and see that its a problem throughout the area. there’s no way to link to the dot map already focused in, so go here and then take it to the ICCSD area by hand:
http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap/
Example Plans and District Reports
Integration Plan for St. Paul Public Schools 2013-2016
News Reports
Political Controversy in Wake County
Related and fascinating material from The Arsenal of Exclusion:
“Cities exist to bring people together, but cities can also keep people apart”
THE ARSENAL OF EXCLUSION & INCLUSION
A of E: School Segregation on Nick News
Rockdoc Re-Search 