Center for Educational Policy Analysis, Research, and Evaluation (CEPARE) 2020 - 2021 Speaker Series
Thurston Domina, Ph.D.
Professor and Program Coordinator, Human and Organizational Leadership & Development
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Kids on the Bus: The Academic Consequences of Diversity-Driven School Reassignments
Many public school diversity efforts rely on reassigning students from one school to another. While opponents of such efforts articulate concerns about the consequences of reassignments for students’ educational experiences, little evidence exists regarding these effects, particularly in contemporary policy contexts. This paper leverages data from an innovative socioeconomic school desegregation plan to estimate the effects of reassignment on reassigned students’ achievement, attendance, and exposure to exclusionary discipline. Between 2000 and 2010, North Carolina’s Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) reassigned approximately 25 percent of students with the goal of creating socioeconomically diverse schools. The talk will describe the plan, challenges to its implementation, and the effects of reassignment on students’ academic outcomes.
Friday, April 30, 2021
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. EST, via Webex
Please RSVP by April 29, 2021 here https://uconn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cNKo1cmaFlydK86
For more information, contact: Shannon R Holder at shannon.holder@uconn.edu