School Integration Matters: Research-Based Strategies to Advance Equity (Multicultural Education)

More than 60 years after the Brown v. Board of Education decision declared segregated schooling inherently unequal, this timely book sheds light on how and why U.S. schools are experiencing increasing segregation along racial, socioeconomic, and linguistic lines. It offers policy and programmatic alternatives for advancing equity and describes the implications for students and more broadly for the nation. The authors look at the structural and legal roots of inequity in the United States educational system and examine opportunities to support integration efforts across the educational pipeline (pre-K to higher education).

School Integration Matters examines:

• The need to increase school integration to advance equity.
• The roots of persisting inequity in U.S. schools.
• Current practices that adversely affect historically marginalized groups.
• K–12 integration and bilingual education policy.
• The challenges and opportunities to advancing integration within higher education.
• Future directions and policy recommendations for pursuing integration for equity.

Erica Frankenberg is associate professor of education and demography and co-director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Pennsylvania State University. Liliana M. Garces is assistant professor of higher education, co-director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights, and research associate for the Center of the Study of Higher Education at Pennsylvania State University. Megan Hopkins is assistant professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.



Contributors: Martha Cecilia Bottia, Courtney D. Cogburn, Erica Frankenberg, Liliana M. Garces, Rachel Garver, Cynthia Gordon da Cruz, Mariela Gutierrez, Megan Hopkins, Michael Hilton, Daniel Kiel, Richard Lambert, Savannah Larimore, Rebecca Lowenhaupt, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, P. Zitlali Morales, Lindsay Pérez Huber, Aria Razfar, Jeanne L. Reid, Matthew Patrick Shaw, Philip Tegeler, Hoang Vu Tran, Tina Trujillo, Brenda Pulido Villanueva