Removing the gatekeeper: Strategies to recognize and disrupt educational redlining

Educational Redlining is the intersection created by the impact of residential redlining and academic placement of students. Residential segregation is an educational problem that impacts how students gain access to educational capital. This dissertation provides both a history of a mortgage practice known as redlining and the history of academic placement in ability groups known as academic tracking. How neighborhoods were developed continues to impact school demographics. School zones are reinforced by city planning choices. Educational Redlining is visible when the composition of feeder neighborhoods is visible in either school choice composition or academic placement composition. If the demographics of a school or a class reflects neighborhoods, then Educational Redlining exists. This visibility can be seen when students enrolled in a class can be identified by the neighborhoods they reside. As a result of inequalities, access to education differs for students depending on their neighborhood. The overview of The Homeowners Loan Corporation (HOLC) maps used to develop neighborhoods provides a layout of how student populations developed. The overview of American schooling and educational policies provides a layout for how academic tracking was created. The limitation of this review is the impact of the Covid 19 pandemic and Critical Race Theory controversy on school districts

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Educ Policy, Orgzn & Leadrshp

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2022

Author dc:creator

• Beyers, Nicole

Contributors dc:contributor

• Ward Hood, Denice
• Huang, Wenhao D
• Mason, Curtis
• Pak, Yoon

• New Deal
• Suburban Development
• Redlining
• Disinvestment
• School District Zones
• Educational Policies
• Academic Tracking
• Educational Redlining
• and Interrupting Educational Redlining.

Statement dc:rights

• © 2022 Nicole Beyers

Language dc:language

en, eng

Handle dc:identifier

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/115448

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