Narrowing the Achievement Gap in a (Re) Segregated Urban School District

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Narrowing the Achievement Gap in a (Re) Segregated Urban School District

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A volume in The Achievement Gap, Research, Practice, and Policy
C. Kent McGuire and Vivian W. Ikpa, Series Editors
The interplay between sociopolitical forces and economic agendas becomes apparent when one
examines the June 28, 2007 United States Supreme Court Decision, Parents Involved In Community
Schools v. Seattle School District . In a reversal of the 1954 Brown Decision, the United
States Supreme Court ruled that public schools could not use race as a factor when assigning children
to public schools. Given demographic shifts, globalization, economic instability, and ideological
shifts, the reversal was expected. However, it is essential that policymakers, educators,
and other stakeholders consider the impact of attending segregated schools on the achievement
gap that continues to exist between minority groups and European Americans attending resegregated
neighborhood schools.
This book will focus on the test score gaps between African American and European American students. The achievement gaps
between these two groups will be analyzed will be presented and elaborated. Additionally, the authors will analyze how changes in
school characteristics such as: racial composition; school composition; school expenditures, and socio economic level of neighborhoods
affect achievement gap trends in the Norfolk School District. An examination of the achievement gap trends in an urban
school district will serve to better inform public policy and school reform efforts.
The specific goals of this book are to describe the achievement gap between minority African-American students and European-American
students in the Norfolk school district and to present strategies utilized by urban districts to narrow the gap. One unique feature of
this book is that it provides a data-driven research-based analysis of the achievement gap between minority and European-American
students.