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Boundary Crossing for Diversity, Equity and Achievement
Subtitle: Inter-District School Desegregation and Educational Opportunity
Author: Wells, A.S., Baldridge, B., Duran, J., et al
Publisher: Charles Hamilton Institute for Race and Justice
Publication Date: 2009, November
Summary or Abstract: The first comprehensive study of the nation’s eight remaining inter-district school desegregation programs – which were expressly created to enable disadvantaged, black and Latino students cross school district boundary lines and attend affluent, predominantly white suburban public schools – has found that these programs help close black-white and Latino-white achievement gaps, improve racial attitudes and lead to long-term mobility and further education for the students of color who participate.