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    The Carrot or the Stick for School Desegregation Policy: Magnet Schools or Forced Busing
    The Carrot or the Stick for School Desegregation Policy: Magnet Schools or Forced Busing
    The Carrot or the Stick for School Desegregation Policy: Magnet Schools or Forced Busing
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    The Carrot or the Stick for School Desegregation Policy: Magnet Schools or Forced Busing

    By Christine Rossell

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    "An in-depth, carefully researched analysis.... The book is particularly useful for public policymakers, school administrators, and faculty and for graduate students in educational policy studies."


    --Choice





    This is the first study comparing the long-term effectiveness of voluntary desegregation plans with magnet programs to mandatory reassignment plans. In a survey of school personnel and parents in 119 school districts, Christine H. Rossell finds that the voluntary plans with incentives (magnets) ultimately produce more interracial exposure than the mandatory plans. Her conclusion contradicts three decades of research that judged mandatory reassignment plans more effective than voluntary plans in desegregating schools.





    Rossell examines the evolution of school desegregation and addresses a number of issues with regard to public policy. She questions how to measure the effectiveness of school desegregation remedies, suggesting interracial exposure as a criterion because it reflects the white flight that threatens to minimize the effects of such programs. She analyzes the characteristics of magnet schools that are attractive to white and black parents and the effect of magnet schools on the quality of education.





    The magnet plans studied here are qualitatively different from the old freedom-of-choice plans implemented in the South and majority-to-minority plans implemented in the North in the 1950s and 1960s. Rossell compares this public choice model of policy-making with previous mandatory efforts and examines court decisions that indicate a growing belief in the effectiveness of voluntary compliance for achieving school desegregation.





    "A significant achievement.... Assembling the most comprehensive data base and the most persuasive analysis to date on relative effectiveness of voluntary versus mandatory desegregation plans, Rossell concludes not only that mandatory desegregation techniques cause long-term white flight, but also that the white loss is large enough to render 'mandatory magnet' plans less effective than 'voluntary magnet' plans."


    --Contemporary Sociology





    "A very well-written analysis of...a topic of major policy significance...to policy researchers, educational policy-makers, lawyers and judges, sociologists, and members of the sophisticated public involved in school desegregation matters."


    --Jeffrey A. Raffel, University of Delaware
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTemple University Press
    Release dateApr 28, 2010
    ISBN9781439903568
    The Carrot or the Stick for School Desegregation Policy: Magnet Schools or Forced Busing

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