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Race and Place: How Suburban Schools Respond to Increasing Racial Diversity

Fri, April 4, 8:15 to 9:45am, Convention Center, Floor: 200 Level, 203B

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Already, over half of minority students in large metropolitan areas attend suburban schools (Author, 2008), and more poor people living in suburbs than in cities (Berube & Kneebone, 2006). Even though this migration has been on-going for decades, there is little research available to understand the complex social, political and institutional context of demographic change and factors predicting response to that change by suburban schools.This symposium will highlight key factors that seem to explain how and why suburban schools seem to be adopting particular responses to growing racial and economic diversity. The four papers in this session, together with the discussant’s comments, provide analytical tools to understand the implications of suburban change on the schools.

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