but any particular white community that can secede from the district, or families that move to other towns, decreases upside and increases downside
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Replying to @alicemazzy
What reasons do you have for believing there is net benefit?
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate
in which scenario, for integrating or for fleeing?
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate
the most quantatively verifiable is race is correlated with socioeconomic status, which directly determines school quality
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Replying to @alicemazzy
segregation vs integration covers like a quarter of the SAT race gap afaik. fuzzier things like acculturation to white middle class norms also likely but hard to measure
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Replying to @alicemazzy
That's not integration. 1) whiter neighborhoods tend to have higher property prices 2) blacks in those areas are richer than average
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate @alicemazzy
and of course 3) richer families have better test scores
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Replying to @peroxycarbonate
school districts are drawn for political reasons just like anything else and there are plenty that cover multiple de facto segregated communities
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Replying to @alicemazzy
I'm not sure what you're arguing, that minorities almost universally prefer integrated schools because it's a status symbol?
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de- and resegregation has been happening en masse for over half a century and the revealed preference is very clear by this point
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