Sean Reardon

Publications

Brown fades: The end of court-ordered school desegregation and the resegregation of American public schools. Sean F. Reardon, Elena Grewal, Demetra Kalogrides, Erica Greenberg. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Forthcoming.
"Academic Redshirting" in Kindergarten Prevalence, Patterns, and Implications. Daphna Bassok, Sean F. Reardon. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2013.
The Widening Income Achievement Gap. Sean F. Reardon. Educational Leadership, 70(8), pp. 10-16. 2013.
Estimating achievement gaps from test scores reported in ordinal 'Proficiency' categories. Andrew D. Ho, Sean F. Reardon. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 37(4), pp. 489-517. 2012.
Patterns of literacy among U.S. students. Sean F. Reardon, Rachel A. Valentino, Kenneth A. Shores. The Future of Children, 22(2), pp. 17-38. 2012.
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor. Sean Reardon. Community Investments: Summer 2012, 24(2), pp. 19-39. 2012.
Income inequality and income segregation. Sean F. Reardon, Kendra Bischoff. American Journal of Sociology, 116(4), 2011.
Measuring the strength of teachers' unions: An empirical application of the partial independence item response approach. Katharine O. Strunk, Sean F. Reardon. Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 35(6), pp. 629-670. 2010.
Effects of failing a high school Exit Exam on course‐taking, achievement, persistence, and graduation. Sean F. Reardon, Nicole Arshan, Allison Atteberry, Michal Kurlaender. Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 32(4), pp. 498-520. 2010.
Assumptions of value‐added models for estimating school effects. Sean F. Reardon, Stephen W. Raudenbush. Education Finance and Policy, 4(4), pp. 492-519. 2009.
Measures of ordinal segregation. Sean F. Reardon. Research on Economic Inequality, 17, pp. 129‐155. 2009.
The Hispanic‐White achievement gap in math and reading in the elementary grades. Sean F. Reardon, Claudia Galindo. American Educational Association Journal, 46(3), pp. 853‐891. 2009.
Race and space in the 1990s: Changes in the geographic scale of racial residential segregation, 1990‐2000. Sean F. Reardon, Chad R. Farrell, Stephen A. Matthews, David O’Sullivand, Kendra Bischoff, Glenn Firebaugh. Social Science Research, 38(1), pp. 55-70. 2009.
The effect of Catholic schooling on math and reading development in kindergarten through fifth grade. Sean F. Reardon, Jacob E. Cheadle, Joseph P. Robinson. Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2(1), pp. 45-87. 2009.
Beyond the census tract: Patterns and determinants of racial residential segregation at multiple scales. Barrett A. Lee, Sean F. Reardon, Glenn Firebaugh, Chad R. Farrel, Stephen A. Matthews, David O’Sullivand. American Sociological Review, 73(5), pp. 766‐791. 2008.
The geographic scale of metropolitan racial segregation. Sean F. Reardon, Stephen A. Matthews, David O’Sullivand, Barrett A. Lee, Glenn Firebaugh, Chad R. Farrell, Kendra Bischoff. Demography, 45(3), pp. 489‐514. 2008.
Patterns of Hispanic students' math skill proficiency in the early elementary grades. Sean F. Reardon, Claudia Galindo. Journal of Latinos and Education, 6(3), pp. 229-252. 2007.
Retail tobacco outlet density and youth smoking: A propensity modeling approach. Scott P. Novak, Sean F. Reardon, Stephen W. Raudenbush, Stephen L. Buka. American Journal of Public Health, 2006.
Implications of income-based school assignment policies for racial school segregation. Sean F. Reardon, John T. Yun, Michal Kurlaender. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 28(1), pp. 49-75. 2006.
The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor: New evidence and possible explanations. Sean F. Reardon. In R. Murnane & G. Duncan (Eds.), Whither Opportunity? Rising Inequality and the Uncertain Life Chances of Low-Income Children, New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2011.
The effects of socioeconomic school integration plans on racial school desegregation. Sean F. Reardon, Kristine L. Rhodes. In E. Frankenberg, E. DeBray‐Pelot & G. Orfield (Eds.), Legal and Policy Options for Racially Integrated Education in the South and the Nation, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, Forthcoming.
Suburbanització, fragmentació de districtes escolars i segregació escolar. Sean F. Reardon. In Miquel Àngel Alegre, Xavier Rambla, and Òscar Valiente (Eds.), L'Elecció de Centre Escolar a Catalunya. Elements per a un Debat, Barcelona, Spain: Fundació Jaume Bofill, 2009.
Patterns and trends in racial/ethnic and socioeconomic academic achievement gaps. Sean F. Reardon, Joseph P. Robinson. In H. A. Ladd & E. B. Fiske (Eds.), Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007.
A conceptual framework for measuring segregation and its association with population outcomes. Sean F. Reardon. In J. Michael Oakes & Jay S. Kaufman (Eds.), Methods in Social Epidemiology, pp. 169‐192. 2006.
Patterns of multiracial private school segregation. John T. Yun, Sean F. Reardon. In J. Scott (Ed.), School Choice and Student Diversity: What the Evidence Says, New York, NY: Teachers College Press , 2005.
Integrating neighborhoods, segregating schools: The retreat from school desegregation in the South, 1990-2000. Sean F. Reardon, John T. Yun. In J. Boger & G. Orfield (Eds.), School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back?, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Private school racial enrollments and segregation. Sean F. Reardon, John T. Yun. In R. D. Kahlenberg (Ed.), Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers, New York: Century Foundation Press, 2003.
Access to excellence through new forms of student assessment. Dennis P. Wolf, Sean F. Reardon. In D.P. Wolf & J.B. Baron (Eds.), Performance‐based student assessment: Challenges and possibilities. Ninety‐fifth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Race, poverty, and inequality. Gary Orfield, Sean F. Reardon. In S. M. Liss & W. L. Taylor (Eds.), New Opportunities: Civil Rights at a Crossroads, Washington: Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights, 1994.
Editor, Special Issue on Equity in Educational Assessment. Sean F. Reardon. Harvard Educational Review, 64(1), 1994.