Public School Choice and Integration: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina

Using evidence from Durham, North Carolina, we examine the impact of school choice programs on racial and class-based segregation across schools. Theoretical considerations suggest that how choice programs affect segregation will depend not only on the family preferences emphasized in the sociology literature but also on the linkages between student composition, school quality and student achievement emphasized in the economics literature, and on the availability of schools of different types. Reasonable assumptions about how these factors differ for students of different races and socio-economic status suggest that the segregating choices of students from advantaged backgrounds are likely to outweigh any integrating choices by disadvantaged students. The results of our empirical analysis are consistent with these theoretical considerations. Using information on the actual schools students attend and on the schools in their assigned attendance zones, we find that schools in Durham are more segregated by race and class as a result of school choice programs than they would be if all students attended their geographically assigned schools. In addition, we find that the effects of choice on segregation by class are larger than the effects on segregation by race.

Wilmington and Topsail Sound Region, North Carolina, 1865 (Raster Image)

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic, paper manuscript map entitled: Map of country between the N.E. Cape-Fear River and Topsail sound, made under the direction of Capt. Wm. H. James, Chf. Engineer, by B.L. Blackford, Top. Engrs. It was drawn in 1865. Scale 1:40,000. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the North Carolina State Plane NAD 1983 coordinate system (in Meters) (Fipszone 3200). All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as roads, railroads, bridges, drainage, troop camps, lines of defense, selected buildings with names of landowners, mills and salt works, ground cover, swamps, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes also ill. of Confederate soldier with a plane table and Confederate flag, at left within margin. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps of the Civil War from the Harvard Map Collection. Many items from this selection are from a collection of maps deposited by the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States Commandery of the State of Massachusetts (MOLLUS) in the Harvard Map Collection in 1938. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features, in particular showing places of military importance. The selection represents a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.

Analysis of coastal sediment transport processes from Wrightsville Beach to Fort Fisher, North Carolina /

A comprehensive engineering analysis of the coastal sediment transport processes along a 42-kilometer segment of the North Carolina shoreline from Wrightsville Beach to Fort Fisher is presented. Included in the analysis is an interpretation of the littoral processes, longshore transport, and the behavior and success of beach nourishment projects at Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach, North Carolina. The historical position of the MLW, MSL, and MHW contours, relative to a fixed base line, is plotted for the period between 1964 and 1975. An equivalent volumetric erosion or accretion between successive surveys is determined by multiplying the average excursion distance of the contours by a constant of proportionality. The plots of excursion distance versus time for the MLW, MSL, and MHW contours also show the time response of the beach fills. This response is described by a mathematical function. The alongshore components of wave-induced energy flux are also determined within the study area through wave refraction analysis. This information, together with the information on volumetric change, is used in a sediment budget analysis to determine the coefficient of alongshore sediment transport and the inlet trapping characteristics. (Author).

Effects of channel relocation and proposed bridge construction on floodflows of the Catawba River near Marion, North Carolina /

Mode of access: Internet.

In defense of the independence of the judiciary : speech of Hon. Josiah W. Bailey of North Carolina in the Senate of the United States, July 12 and 13, 1937.

"Not printed at government expense."

Comparison of numerical and physical hydraulic models, Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina /

"June 1977."

Comparison of numerical and physical hydraulic models, Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina : Appendix 1, fixed-bed hydraulic model results /

"June 1977."

Comparison of numerical and physical hydraulic models, Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina : Appendix 2, numerical simulation of hydrodynamics (WRE) /

"June 1977."

Comparison of numerical and physical hydraulic models, Masonboro Inlet, North Carolina : Appendix 4, simplified numerical (lumped parameter) simulation /

"June 1977."

An examination of the effects of the lowered maximum speed limit and fuel shortages in North Carolina. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Water-quality and physical characteristics of streams in the Treyburn Development area of Falls Lake watershed, North Carolina, 1994-98 /

Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-55).

Reminiscences and memoirs of North Carolina and eminent North Carolinians.

Prefatory matter: Memoir of the author, by J.S. Fowler.--North Carolina in the colonial period, by D. R. Goodloe.--Early German Settlers in eastern Cabarrus Co., by Rufus Barringer.--Biographical sketch of Dr. Edward Warren (Bey)--Genealogies of Blount, Barringer, Clark Haywood & Phifer families.