School Segregation: Managed Integration or Free Choice?

W A V Clark, F M Dieleman and L de Klerk
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W A V Clark: Department of Geography, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024, USA
F M Dieleman: Department of Geography, University of Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 2, PO Box 80.115, 3508 TC Utrecht, Netherlands
L de Klerk: Institute for Social Geography, University of Amsterdam, Jodenbreestraat 23, 1011 NH Amsterdam, Netherlands

Environment and Planning C, 1992, vol. 10, issue 1, 91-103

Abstract: As the proportion of immigrant minorities has increased in Dutch cities there has been a corresponding increase in the levels of minority versus Dutch pupil segregation in the schools. At the same time the levels of segregation in residential neighborhoods has remained stable. A specific analysis of school attendance patterns in Amsterdam shows that the reason for the increasing segregation in schools is that there is a strong tendency to choose schools of the same ethnicity. The choices both by Dutch and by immigrant parents are serving to increase levels of separation but until there is evidence of educational inequality as a result we argue policy intervention should proceed with caution. The current government approach is to provide supplementary funding to ‘minority schools’ rather than to assign children to schools.

Date: 1992
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