The Future of School Integration: Socioeconomic Diversity as an Education Reform Strategy

by Richard D. Kahlenberg (Editor)

Overview

This volume seeks to answer important questions about how socioeconomic school integration plans are faring and to provide guidance for how they can be sustained and expanded in the years to come. This research-driven volume features work by authors who offer a fresh perspective on critical issues such as the costs and benefits of socioeconomic integration, and the logistical and political feasibility of socioeconomic integration. The volume features new research by Jeanne L. Reid (Columbia University’s Teachers College), Marco Basile (Harvard University), Sheneka M. Williams (University of Georgia), Ann Mantil (Harvard University), Anne G. Perkins (Massachusetts Department of Higher Education), and Stephanie Aberger (Expeditionary Learning). It also includes cutting-edge chapters by Kahlenberg, by Heather Schwartz of the RAND Corporation, and by Meredith Richards, Kori J. Stroub, and Jennifer Jellison Holmes of the University of Texas at Austin, recently published by The Century Foundation as independent reports.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780870785252
Publisher:	The Century Foundation, Inc.
Publication date:	04/03/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	408
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Richard D. Kahlenberg is a senior fellow at The Century Foundation. He is the author of four books: Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007); All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Institution Press, 2001); The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996); and Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School (Hill&Wang/Farrar, Straus&Giroux, 1992). In addition, Kahlenberg is the editor of eight Century Foundation books: The Future of School Integration: Socioeconomic Diversity as an Education Reform Strategy (2012); Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions (2010); Rewarding Strivers: Helping Low-Income Students Succeed in College (2010); Improving on No Child Left Behind: Getting Education Reform Back on Track (2008); America’s Untapped Resource: Low-Income Students in Higher Education (2004); Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers (2003); Divided We Fail: Coming Together through Public School Choice: The Report of The Century Foundation Task Force on the Common School, chaired by Lowell Weicker (2002); and A Notion at Risk: Preserving Public Education as an Engine for Social Mobility (2000).

Table of Contents

Foreword Janice Nittoli v

1 Introduction: Socioeconomic School Integration Richard D. Kahlenberg 1

Part I The Benefits and Costs of Socioeconomic Integration

2 Housing Policy Is School Policy: Economically Integrative Housing Promotes Academic Success in Montgomery County, Maryland Heather Schwartz 27

3 Socioeconomic Diversity and Early Learning: The Missing Link in Policy for High-Quality Preschools Jeanne L. Reid 67

4 The Cost-Effectiveness of Socioeconomic School Integration Marco Basile 127

Part II The Logistics and Politics of Socioeconomic Integration

5 The Challenge of High-Poverty Schools: How Feasible Is Socioeconomic School Integration? Ann Mantil Anne G. Perkins Stephanie Aberger 155

6 Can NCLB Choice Work? Modeling the Effects of Interdistrict Choice on Student Access to Higher-Performing Schools Meredith P. Richards Kori J. Stroub Jennifer Jellison Holme 223

7 The Politics of Maintaining Balanced Schools: An Examination of Three Districts Sheneka M. Williams 257

Part III Socioeconomic Integration and the Washington Education Policy Debate

8 Turnaround Schools and Charter Schools that Work: Moving Beyond Separate But Equal Richard D. Kohlenberg 283

Appendix: Local Education Agencies Employing Socioeconomic Status in Some Fashion in Student Assignment, with Corresponding Student Populations in Parentheses 309

Notes 313

Index 373

About the Contributors 395