School segregation and school inequality in the U.S.

Persistent school segregation does not mean just that children of different racial and ethnic backgrounds attend different schools, but that their schools are also unequal in their students’ performance.  This study of public schools in the United States documents nationally the extent of disparities in student performance between schools attended by whites and Asians compared to blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans.  It also shows how these disparities are rooted in the segregation pattern, in which students of different racial/ethnic backgrounds go to schools with very racial and social class different profiles.