How university admissions can help integrate secondary schools
How university admissions can help integrate secondary schools
In recent years, several US states have introduced college admission policies that reward local rather than global relative performance by guaranteeing admission to students graduating in the top N-percent of their high school. This column examines how these policies affected socioeconomic and ethnic segregation at both the university and high school levels in the state of Texas. While the policies did not replicate the level of diversity in universities seen under earlier affirmative action policies, they did lead to a reduction in the overall level of ethnic segregation in high schools.
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Gall, Thomas
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Legros, Patrick
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Newman, Andrew
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23 May 2017
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Gall, Thomas
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Legros, Patrick
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Newman, Andrew
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Estevan, Fernanda, Gall, Thomas, Legros, Patrick and Newman, Andrew
(2017)
How university admissions can help integrate secondary schools.
VoxEU.
Abstract
In recent years, several US states have introduced college admission policies that reward local rather than global relative performance by guaranteeing admission to students graduating in the top N-percent of their high school. This column examines how these policies affected socioeconomic and ethnic segregation at both the university and high school levels in the state of Texas. While the policies did not replicate the level of diversity in universities seen under earlier affirmative action policies, they did lead to a reduction in the overall level of ethnic segregation in high schools.
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Accepted/In Press date: 19 May 2017
Published date: 23 May 2017
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/411220
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