ERIC Number: EJ1027841
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-May
Pages: 39
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The Politics of Maintaining Diversity Policies in Demographically Changing Urban-Suburban School Districts
Diem, Sarah; Frankenberg, Erica; Cleary, Colleen; Ali, Nazneen
American Journal of Education, v120 n3 p351-389 May 2014
This study focuses on how the demographic change occurring within two county-wide school districts and communities in the South, including the creation of suburban enclaves alongside central cities overwhelmingly made up of low-income students of color, influences community support for diversity policies within two school districts with a history of voluntary integration efforts: Jefferson County Public Schools (Louisville, KY) and the Wake County Public School System (Raleigh, NC). By focusing on two urban-suburban school districts, our research extends prior work examining the politics of diversity in urban school districts to county-wide school districts experiencing rapid suburbanization and stratification.
Descriptors: Population Trends, Low Income Groups, Minority Group Students, School Desegregation, Student Diversity, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools, Politics of Education, School Policy
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Kentucky; North Carolina
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