Blacks and Brown: The Effects of School Desegregation on Black Students
New Mexico State University
Effects of desegregation on students.
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation:
The National Institute of Education.
- The mean effect size for verbal achievement including all the studies in the set is .14 and for math it is .04. These results appear to indicate that verbal achievement improves somewhat, but math achievement show little effect as a result of desegregation.
- The author believes it is the complexity more than any other factor that accounts for the diverse results that have been observed in studies of the effects of desegregation on achievement.
- Studies demonstrate that while simply mixing students of different groups in desegregated schools does not improve race relations, intergroup relations can be improved in desegregated schools by introducing special programs designed to achieve this goal.
Academic Achievement, Desegregation, Math, Vocabulary
Secondary Survey Data
Method of Analysis:
Unit of Analysis:
- Studies by:
- Iwanicki & Gable
- Laird & Weeks
- Sheehan & Marcus
- Thompson and Smidchens
- Van Every
- In summary, the desegregation in these studies was typically voluntary (66% of the cases), the cities it occurred in were generally medium to large, the region was more often the North than the South, the schools the students attended were more frequently elementary schools than secondary schools. Blacks were very much in the minority in most of these schools, and most of the studies were conducted prior to 1970.