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School segregation and school choice – selected considerations.

School segregation and school choice – selected considerations. Student and family background School quality School segregation. Academic achievement Immigrant integration into the main culture. Social cohesion between natives and immigrants ( Burgess & Wilson, 2005 ).

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School segregation and school choice – selected considerations.

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  1. School segregation and school choice – selected considerations.

  2. Student and family background School quality School segregation • Academic achievement • Immigrant integration • into the main culture. • Social cohesion between • natives and immigrants • (Burgess & Wilson, 2005). Very brief overview School choice policies

  3. Point 1: Limiting school choice is no easy cure against segregation • Third dimension: residential choice • Limiting school choice makes people move. • Limiting/abolishing school choice with many immigrant concentration schools ~ court-ordered segregation in US. ->Whites/natives suddenly faced with high %immigrants in their schools. • Baum-Snow&Lutz (2008) find that (affluent) Whites moved to white suburbs.

  4. Point 1: Limiting school choice is no easy cure against segregation What happens when you limit school choice? • Residential segregation: increases • School segregation: • decreases because of limited school choice • increases because people sort by residential relocation • Net effect ??? -> Important to consider the consequences of residential sorting, too.

  5. Point 2: (White/native) flight hurts twice • Natives start (add.) opting out when immigrant shares exceed 35-40%. • Well-educated families flee at higher rates than low-educated: -> weakens also SES-composition in the remaining group of natives group in schools. • Also well-integrated immigrant students opt out. => It is not just ”average” students who flee, but the strong students (also among immigrants) are the first to flee. [Results from Rangvid (2007).]

  6. Point 3: Who do you move with your dispersion program? • Many dispersion models - basic difference: • (1) Voluntary dispersion: • - eg. reserve slots for immigrants out-of-district students at low concentration schools, which immigrants can apply for. • (2) Non-voluntary dispersion: • eg. language screening: if ”fail” the test, enrol in school with few immigrants.

  7. Point 3: Who do you move with your dispersion program? Voluntary dispersion model Non-voluntary dispersion model High ability Low ability ”Strong” students/ families decide to move ”Weak” students are moved Voluntary models: Risk of cream-skimming Non-voluntary models: Opportunity to target the subpopulation you want to move

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