Student Diversity, Choice, and School Improvement

This nationwide study provides research-based and theoretical justification for why school improvement and student body diversity mutually enhance each other, and suggests concrete models for implementing these goals in school reform plans by way of Controlled Choice, Whole School Change, and other methods.

CHARLES V. WILLIE is The Charles Wiliam Eliot Professor of Education Emeritus, Harvard Graduate School of Education.

RALPH EDWARDS is Visiting Associate Professor and Senior Research Associate, Northeastern University.

MICHAEL J. ALVES is Senior Equity Specialist, Education Alliance, Brown University.