Jenn Ayscue

Can our schools capture the educational gains of diversity? North Carolina school segregation, alternatives and possible gains

The Civil Rights Project/ Proyecto Derechos Civiles.

Can two-way dual language immersion programs help integrate schools? An examination of North Carolina

Annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy. Poster presented at the Annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, Baltimore, MD.

Desegregation in Dual Language Immersion Programs

North Carolina Department of Public Instruction AIM Conference. Presented at the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction AIM Conference, Raleigh, NC.

Dismantling triple segregation through two-way immersion

In J. B. Ayscue (Ed.), Reimagining school integration: Possibilities for the future (pp. 69–90). Information Age Publishing.

Fostering integration through two-way immersion programs in North Carolina

Annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration. Presented at the Annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration, Los Angeles, CA.

Gentrification and School Segregation: A Comparative Analysis in Californian Cities

Proceedings of the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting. Presented at the 2024 AERA Annual Meeting.

Gentrification’s impact on school demographics: A study of 3 California cities [Web log post

Ayscue, J. B., Mordechay, K., & Mickey-Pabello, D. (2024, March 26). https://www.brookings.edu/articles/gentrifications-impact-on-school-demographics-a-study-of-3-california-cities/

Learning from the past to conceptualize a new integrated future

In J. B. Ayscue (Ed.), Reimagining school integration: Possibilities for the future (pp. vii-xix). Information Age Publishing.

Not like super high numbers:” How parents’ perceptions of diversity shape magnet school appraisals and choices

Eastern Sociological Society Conference. Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Conference, Washington, DC.

Parent perceptions of school choice options and magnet schools in Wake County, North Carolina

International School Choice and Reform Conference. Presented at the International School Choice and Reform Conference, Madrid, Spain.

Reimagining school integration: Possibilities for the future

Information Age Publishing.

The unintended consequences of school accountability on racial segregation: Evidence from North Carolina

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

“Fighting an Uphill Battle”: The Pursuit of Equity Through the Every Student Succeeds Act in North Carolina

Educational Administration Quarterly, 9.

Do accountability policies impact school segregation? Evidence from North Carolina

Annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy. Presented at the Annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy, Denver, CO.

Gentrification and schools: Challenges, opportunities, and policy options

The Civil Rights Project/ Proyecto Derechos Civiles.

Integration and immersion: The potential of two-way dual language immersion programs to foster integration

In Integration and equity 2.0: New and reinvigorated approaches to school integration (pp. 4 2–1–4 2–12). American Institutes for Research.

Promoting equity and justice through integrated schools and communities

In J. P. Bishop (Ed.), Our children can’t wait: The urgency of reinventing education policy in America (pp. 133–153). New York: Teachers College Press.

Resegregation will not happen on our watch: The political and social context surrounding voluntary integration in Wake County Public School System

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31.

School and community segregation: The policy issue of our time

In Our children can’t wait [Audio podcast episode]. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/school-community-segregation-the-policy-issue-of-our-time/id1669078704?i=1000609598468

Analyzing Congressional Research Service Reports on Education: How Is Information Used at Congress’s Think Tank?

AERA Open, 8, 233285842211171.

Charter School Segregation in Detroit

Diversifying Neighborhoods, Diversifying Schools? The Relationship Between Neighborhood Racial Change and School Segregation in New York City

Education and Urban Society, 56(1), 3–32.

Equity and Early Implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act in State-Designed Plans During COVID

Educational Policy, 37(7), 1917–1949.

Facilitating equity through diverse, integrated schools

North Carolina Schools Boards Association Annual Conference. Presented at the North Carolina Schools Boards Association Annual Conference, Greensboro, NC.

Housing, student homelessness, and racial integration as essential education policy components

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

How Teachers and Leaders Facilitate Integration in a Two-Way Dual Language Immersion Program

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 124(1), 87–110.

How teachers and leaders facilitate integration in a two-way dual language immersion program

Ayscue, J. B., & Uzzell, E. M. (2022, February 15). https://sdnotebook.com/2022/02/15/how-teachers-leaders-facilitate-integration-in-a-two-way-dual-language-immersion-program/

Neighborhood Diversity, School Segregation? Exploring Links in California

Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting. Presented at the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting.

Politics, capacity, and a pandemic: Equity and early implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.

School segregation: A mixed methods examination in Charlottesville City and Albemarle County Schools

Annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration. Presented at the Annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration, Seattle, WA.

Shining a light on inequities through the Every Student Succeeds Act in North Carolina

Annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration. Presented at the Annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration, Seattle, WA.

Teachers' and Leaders' Perceptions of School Diversity in a Gentrifying Neighborhood (Poster 27)

Proceedings of the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting. Presented at the 2022 AERA Annual Meeting.

“An Opportunity to Grow Our Collective Consciousness”: Navigating Racial Tension in a Gentrifying Elementary School

Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 26(1), 44–57.

Diversifying neighborhoods, diversifying schools? The relationship between neighborhood racial change and school segregation in New York City

(Working Paper No. 244). National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, Teachers College, Columbia University.

Integration through immersion: The possibilities of two-way dual language programs

Poverty and Race, 30(2), 5–6, 13.

Promoting racial and linguistic integration in two-way dual language immersion classrooms

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Virtual. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Virtual.

Racial integration through two-way dual language immersion: A case study

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 29(January - July), 48.

Reurbanization and the Segregation of Local Charter Schools

Proceedings of the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting. Presented at the 2021 AERA Annual Meeting.

The Past, Present, and Future of <i>Brown’s</i> Mandate: A View from North Carolina

American Behavioral Scientist, 66(6), 770–803.

Two-way dual language immersion as a policy lever for racial integration

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Virtual. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Virtual.

COVID-19 and the achievement gap: Implications for North Carolina

Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University College of Education.

Congressional Research Service Reports During the 115th U.S. Congress: Who Is Informing Federal Education Policy Making?

Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Presented at the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting.

Could Gentrification Become Integration? Evidence From New York City

Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting. Presented at the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting.

Does Neighborhood Gentrification Create School Desegregation?

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education, 122(5), 1–34.

Resegregation will not happen on our watch”: Voluntary desegregation in Wake County, North Carolina

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Segregation versus integration: Researchers and district partners producing good for students labeled English learners

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presidential Session presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

The past, present, and future of Brown’s mandate: A view from North Carolina

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presidential Session presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.

Two-way dual language immersion as a policy lever for integration

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference. Poster presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference.

Accountability requires oversight

Fusarelli, L. D., & Ayscue, J. B. (2019, October 4). https://www.kappanonline.org/education-standards-accountability-essa-petrilli/

Analyzing Congressional Research Service reports from the 115th Congress: Sources informing federal education policy

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference. Poster presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, Denver, CO.

Could neighborhood gentrification further school integration?

Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference. Presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management Fall Research Conference, Denver, CO.

Harming our common future: America’s segregated schools 65 years after Brown

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/harming-our-common-future-americas-segregated-schools-65-years-after-brown/Brown-65-050919v4-final.pdf

How Gentrification by Urban Millennials Improves Public School Diversity

Mordechay, K., & Ayscue, J. B. (2019, July 8). https://www.citylab.com/perspective/2019/07/gentrification-school-segregation-new-york-city-neighborhood/593179/

Is ESSA a retreat from equity?

Phi Delta Kappan, 101(2), 32–36.

Magnets and school turnarounds: Revisiting policies for promoting equitable, diverse schools

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 27, 72.

School integration in gentrifying neighborhoods: Evidence from New York City

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/school-integration-in-gentrifying-neighborhoods-evidence-from-new-york-city

"One city, all kids”: Creating a collaborative public education system for all of Los Angeles’ students

In We choose all: Building a system of excellent public education (pp. 77–94). Los Angeles, CA: UNITE LA and UCLA Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access.

Buffalo’s choice schools and the civil rights issues

In G. Orfield & J. B. Ayscue (Eds.), Discrimination in elite public schools: Investigating Buffalo (pp. 27–41). New York: Teachers College Press.

Charters as a driver of resegregation

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/charters-as-a-driver-of-resegregation/Charters-as-a-Driver-of-Resegregation-012518.pdf

Connecting to Congress: Stories and strategies

Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

Discrimination in elite public schools: Investigating Buffalo

New York: Teachers College Press.

Gentrification, desegregation, and educational equality

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, NY.

How the design of school choice can further integration

In I. C. Rotberg & J. L. Glazer (Eds.), Choosing charters: Better schools or more segregation? (pp. 177–191). New York: Teachers College Press.

How to make competitive schools of choice more accessible and equitable

In G. Orfield & J. B. Ayscue (Eds.), Discrimination in elite public schools: Investigating Buffalo (pp. 92–115). New York: Teachers College Press.

Policies needed to build inclusive cities and schools

Education Policy Analysis Archives, 26, 98.

Q&A with Congressional Fellows: Jennifer Ayscue

Ayscue, J. (2018, July). https://www.aera.net/Newsroom/AERA-Highlights-E-newsletter/AERA-Highlights-July-2018/Q-A-with-Congressional-Fellows-Jennifer-Ayscue

Research, politics, and civil rights: What happened to our recommendations

In G. Orfield & J. B. Ayscue (Eds.), Discrimination in elite public schools: Investigating Buffalo (pp. 116–132). New York: Teachers College Press.

Segregation in California and in Los Angeles Unified School District charter schools

In D. J. B. Mitchell (Ed.), California Policy Options 2018 (pp. 108–133). Los Angeles, CA: UCLA School of Public Affairs.

Can socioeconomic diversity plans produce racial diversity in k-12 schools?

(Research Brief No. 12). The National Coalition on School Diversity.

Choices worth making: Creating, sustaining, and expanding diverse magnet schools. A manual for local stakeholders

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/choices-worth-making-creating-sustaining-and-expanding-diverse-magnet-schools

Ending discrimination, sharing opportunities, and building integration in Sausalito Marin City School District: A report to the California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General

The Civil Rights Project/ Proyecto Derechos Civiles.

How magnets can support diversity

Center for Education and Civil Rights Conference on Furthering Diversity in K-12 Schools through Student Assignment. Presented at the Center for Education and Civil Rights Conference on Furthering Diversity in K-12 Schools through Student Assignment, Washington, DC.

Magnet research: What exists? What’s needed?

Magnet Schools of America Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA.

Magnets and school turnarounds: A policy lever for promoting equitable, diverse schools

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

New flexibility, new challenges? Federally funded magnet schools post-Parents Involved

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Antonio, TX.

Reclaiming the potential for equity and diversity in Montgomery County’s schools of choice

[Field Report]. The National Coalition on School Diversity.

The complementary benefits of racial and socioeconomic diversity in schools

(Research Brief No. 10). The National Coalition on School Diversity.

White growth, persistent segregation: Could gentrification become integration?

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/white-growth-persistent-segregation-could-gentrification-become-integration/DC-Gentrification-122217-km.0.pdf

A federal lever for school integration: New opportunities and challenges for magnet schools

Annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration. Presented at the Annual convention of the University Council for Educational Administration, Detroit, MI.

Desegregation and Integration

Diversifying High Schools in Racially Changing Suburban Districts: Expanding Opportunity, Creating Barriers?

Peabody Journal of Education, 91(3), 383–403.

How researchers can give voice to a marginalized community

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D. C.

How to equalize access to competitive schools of choice

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Washington, D. C.

Promising or Potentially Harmful? Suburban School Responses to Racial Change

Peabody Journal of Education, 91(3), 326–347.

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

Peabody Journal of Education, 91(3), 283–288.

Review of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte

Education Review // Reseñas Educativas, 23.

School Segregation and Resegregation in Charlotte and Raleigh, 1989-2010

Educational Policy, 32(1), 3–54.

When choice fosters inequality

Phi Delta Kappan, 98(4), 49–54.

Better choices for Buffalo’s students: Expanding and reforming the criteria schools system

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/better-choices-for-buffalos-students-expanding-reforming-the-criteria-schools-system

Deepening educational segregation in a policy vacuum

In D. J. B. Mitchell (Ed.), California Policy Options 2015 (pp. 165–184). Los Angeles, CA: UCLA School of Public Affairs.

Just News from Center X

Ayscue, J. (Ed.). (2015, October). https://centerx.gseis.ucla.edu/just-news

Perpetuating Separate and Unequal Worlds of Educational Opportunity Through District Lines: School Segregation by Race and Poverty

Rural school segregation in North Carolina, 1991-2011

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL.

School choice and segregation in California’s public schools

Academy for Educational Studies’ Critical Questions in Education Conference. Presented at the Academy for Educational Studies’ Critical Questions in Education Conference, San Diego, CA.

States with highly fragmented school districts have greater levels of school segregation

Ayscue, J., & Orfield, G. (2015, April 22). http://bit.ly/1DN4P3b

The role of school district boundary lines in perpetuating school segregation

Ayscue, J., & Orfield, G. (2015, May 22).

Diversifying high schools in racially changing suburban districts: Expanding opportunity, creating barriers?

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Diversity in the distance: The onset of racial change in Northern New England schools

The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles.

Losing ground: School segregation in Massachusetts

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

New faces, new paradigms: How teachers make sense of suburban diversification

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Responding to racial change in suburbia: The effectiveness of school policies and practices

Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Presented at the Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.

School District Lines Stratify Educational Opportunity by Race and Poverty

Race and Social Problems, 7(1), 5–20.

Segregation again: North Carolina’s transition from leading desegregation then to accepting segregation now

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/segregation-again-north-carolina2019s-transition-from-leading-desegregation-then-to-accepting-segregation-now

Three distinct histories with one common future? School segregation in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Richmond, 1989-2010

Penn State University’s Civil Rights and Education Conference. Presented at the Penn State University’s Civil Rights and Education Conference, State College, PA.

Losing ground: School segregation in Massachusetts

https://www.civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/losing-ground-school-segregation-in-massachusetts

New faces in suburban spaces: How diversifying districts and schools are responding to marked change in their racial makeup

School Administrator, 70(11), 23–27.

Settle for segregation or strive for diversity? A defining moment for Maryland’s public schools

The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles.