When Does a Magnet School Lose Its Magnetism?

Autor/in	Schofield, Janet Ward
Titel	When Does a Magnet School Lose Its Magnetism?
Quelle	(1978), (24 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Blacks; Case Studies; Community Support; Desegregation Methods; Feeder Patterns; Free Choice Transfer Programs; Intermediate Grades; Junior High Schools; Magnet Schools; Middle Schools; Racial Composition; Racially Balanced Schools; School Desegregation; School Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Black person; Schwarzer; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Mittelstufe; Sekundarstufe I; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Integrative Schule; Schuleffizienz
Abstract	This paper traces the history of a magnet school which opened in 1975 amid claims that it would serve as a model of high quality integrated education but which, three years later, was widely perceived as an overcrowded, predominantly black institution. The local Board of Education decided to open a magnet school in which new teaching techniques were to be instituted along with facilities geared to attract students from both black and white areas. By opening a new school with an equal number of black and white students, the problem of one group entering the traditional area of another group was avoided. The first and second years of the school were relatively successful, but the institution of a feeder system in the school's second year, in place of the open enrollment plan, diminished the school's effectiveness in drawing students from diverse areas. The most serious effect on the school's academic programs came from the crowding which resulted from the feeder plan. The feeder plan also functioned to make the incoming classes predominantly black, thereby reducing the school's ability to function as a model of integration. (Author/RLV)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01