From the Courtroom to the Classroom: The Shifting Landscape of School Desegregation by Claire Smrekar & Ellen Goldring

Author:Claire Smrekar & Ellen Goldring
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Published: 2018-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

FIGURE 7.2: Percentage of Students Who Need Support Services Compared to Percentage of Students Who Receive Services

Resource Adequacy

Even though a school may have additional resources, they might not be adequate to meet the needs of the student body. We asked teachers how adequate the resources are across a number of areas, such as reference materials in their classrooms (maps, science kits), supplemental texts and workbooks, supplies, and computers. In year one, enhanced option teachers rated these resources fairly consistently with other school types (mean = 2.66, or adequate). However, in year two, enhanced option schools rated the adequacy of resources as a 2.84, or mostly adequate. Their score was higher than any other school at any other period of time, and the growth from year one to year two was also larger in enhanced option schools than in any other school type. Thus, in 2001–02, enhanced option schools seemed to be average in their resource adequacy in comparison to other school types; however, this seemed to change over time, as is consistent with other reports of the increased resources from year one to year two in enhanced option schools.

In sum, based on teacher reports on surveys collected in our study, the enhanced option schools have more resources than other school types; these resources are intended to support academic goals for at-risk students. Teachers report enhanced services, more personnel, and adequate educational materials (books, computers). The greater need is met with the availability of more services. However, consistent with other research on schools that serve at-risk students, these schools have a higher number of less experienced teachers than other schools in the district.

Do these resource enhancements translate to supportive social structures and social processes in enhanced option schools? We now turn to an in-depth examination of how the in-school and out-of-school lives intersect for students and teachers at Olive and Jefferson enhanced option schools.

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