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Accountability in a Postdesegregation Era: The Continuing Significance of Racial Segregation
American Educational Research Journal (2004)
  • Kathryn M Borman, University of South Florida
  • Tamela Eitle, University of Miami
  • Deanna Michael, University of South Florida
  • David J Eitle, Florida International University
  • Reginald Lee, University of South Florida
  • Larry Johnson, University of South Florida
  • Deirdre Cobb-Roberts, University of South Florida
  • Sherman Dorn, University of South Florida
  • Barbara Shircliffe, University of South Florida
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.
Keywords
  • accountability,
  • desegregation,
  • education reform,
  • segregation
Publication Date
Fall 2004
Citation Information
Kathryn M Borman, Tamela Eitle, Deanna Michael, David J Eitle, et al.. "Accountability in a Postdesegregation Era: The Continuing Significance of Racial Segregation" American Educational Research Journal Vol. 41 Iss. 3 (2004)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/deirdre_cobb-roberts/2/