Does Segregation still matter? The Impact of student composition on academic achievement in high school.

1. I chose this article based on my own personal experience. I grew up in two different high schools located in different parts of California. The first high school was in a lower status community whereas the other high school was in a suburb where much of the population was made up of middle to upper class citizens. In each high school I witnessed a large difference in the educational opportunities and expectations of the students. …

…The population that the research was designed to represent was the entire population of high school students in America. The central variables were conceptualized in the research by taking in account the standardized test scores in math, science, reading, and social science, as well as the whole composite scores. In addition, student, parent, teacher, and principle surveys were taken so that researchers could establish independent variables. 5. The data gathered was from a NELS report from 1988.