Accountability in a Postdesegregation Era: The Continuing Significance of Racial Segregation

Kathryn M Borman, Tamela Eitle, Deanna Michael, David J Eitle, Reginald Lee, Larry Johnson, Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, Sherman Dorn, Barbara Shircliffe

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Abstract

In the wake of both the end of court-ordered school desegregation and the growing popularity of accountability as a mechanism to maximize student achievement, the authors explore the association between racial segregation and the percentage of students passing high-stakes tests in Florida's schools. Results suggest that segregation matters in predicting school-level performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test after control for other known andpurportedpredictors of standardized testperformance. Also, these results suggest that neither recent efforts by the state of Florida to equalize the funding of education nor current efforts involving high-stakes testing will close the Black-White achievement gap without consideration of the racial distribution of students across schools.

Original languageAmerican English
JournalAmerican Educational Research Journal
Volume41
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 1 2004

Keywords

  • accountability
  • desegregation
  • education reform
  • segregation

Disciplines

  • Education
  • Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education

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