The first study comparing the long-term effectiveness of voluntary desegregation plans with magnet programs to mandatory reassignment plans.

Throughout the nation's history, from before the Civil War through Reconstruction, across the years of lynchings and segregation to the Brown v. Board of Educat

School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controversy today wh

Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory. Choice initiatives at all levels o

The sociology of education is a rich interdisciplinary field that studies schools as their own social world as well as their place within the larger society. Th