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Political and Mathematical Perspectives on Educational Equity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Trudi C. Miller
Trudi C. Miller*
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National Science Foundation
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Abstract

A selective review of the literature on equal educational opportunity supports an argument for explicit use of normative models in research. The argument has two parts. First, we show that confusion over the Coleman Report (1966) was due to a mismatch between the implied reform objective and the statistical approach. The objective was to reduce black/white differences in educational achievement, but the statistics explained individual differences in achievement. Second, we partly develop and apply a normative dynamic model of the objectives of school integration over time. Normative dynamic models could be used in conjunction with behavioral data to operationalize theoretical concepts such as accountability, symbolic politics and non-decisions.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 75 , Issue 2 , June 1981 , pp. 319 - 333
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1981

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