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Sohoni, Deenesh. "Mapping Educational Inequality: Concentrations of Poverty among Poor and Minority Students in Public Schools" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Aug 11, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p105244_index.html>

Sohoni, D. , 2006-08-11 "Mapping Educational Inequality: Concentrations of Poverty among Poor and Minority Students in Public Schools" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal Convention Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p105244_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: To understand the processes that lead to high concentrations of poverty in public schools for poor and minority students, we compare levels of economic segregation in schools and in their corresponding attendance boundaries. To do this, we use geographic interpolation methods to assign poverty rates from 2000 census geography to maps of school attendance boundaries in the largest 21 school districts in the U.S. We then link poverty rates in school attendance boundaries with the Common Core of Data, which counts the number of poor children in each public school. Findings show that the percentage of poor children in traditional, neighborhood-based public schools is much greater than in their corresponding catchment areas. The racial composition of a school attendance boundaries also play a substantial role in determining the economic composition of schools. The difference between poverty rates in schools and in their corresponding catchment areas is much larger if the majority of children in a school are minorities than if they are white. These patterns have two important consequences: first, poor children are much more concentrated in schools with higher poverty rates than they would be if all children attended their local public schools. Second, black and Hispanic children attend schools with drastically higher poverty rates than that which exists in their residential areas.

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Racial Segregation in Public and Private Schools: a Nationwide Empirical Evaluation