Student Diversity, Choice, and School Improvement

by Ralph Edwards, Charles V. Willie, Michael J. Alves

Diversified schools, in which students of various racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic characteristics are balanced, have a positive contextual effect on achievement for all groups compared to schools with homogeneous student bodies that tend to help affluent, white students and harm poor students and students of color. The authors advise school districts convicted for operating segregated schools on how to make all schools schools of choice that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897898478
• ISBN13: 9780897898478
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 11.4"