Hanselman Paul, Fiel Jeremy E
University of Texas at Austin.
University of Arizona.
Soc Forces. 2017 Mar;95(3):1077-1104. doi: 10.1093/sf/sow088. Epub 2017 Feb 3.
Persistent school segregation may allow advantaged groups to hoard educational opportunities and consign minority students to lower-quality educational experiences. Although minority students are concentrated in low-achieving schools, relatively little previous research directly links segregation to measures of school quality based on student achievement growth, which more plausibly reflect learning opportunities. Using a dataset of public elementary schools in California, this study provides the first analysis detailing the distribution of a growth-based measure of school quality using standard inequality indices, allowing disparities to be decomposed across geographic and organizational scales. We find mixed support for the school opportunity hoarding hypothesis. We find small White and Asian advantages in access to high-growth schools, but most of the inequality in exposure to school growth is within racial groups. Growth-based disparities both between and within groups tend to be on a more local scale than disparities in absolute achievement levels, focusing attention on within-district policies to mitigate school-based inequalities in opportunities to learn.
持续的学校隔离可能会让优势群体囤积教育机会,并使少数族裔学生接受质量较低的教育体验。尽管少数族裔学生集中在成绩较差的学校,但以前相对较少的研究直接将隔离与基于学生成绩增长的学校质量衡量标准联系起来,而学生成绩增长更能合理地反映学习机会。本研究利用加利福尼亚州公立小学的数据集,首次进行了分析,详细说明了使用标准不平等指数对基于增长的学校质量衡量标准的分布情况,从而能够在地理和组织层面分解差距。我们对学校机会囤积假说的支持程度不一。我们发现,在进入高增长学校方面,白人和亚裔有小的优势,但在接触学校增长方面的不平等大多存在于种族群体内部。基于增长的群体间和群体内差距往往比绝对成绩水平的差距更集中在地方层面,这就将注意力集中在地区内政策上,以减轻基于学校的学习机会不平等。