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The Diversity Project: A Strategic Plan for Achieving Educational Equity at Berkeley High SchoolThe Diversity Project is a collaborative research and reform effort between representatives from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Education and Berkeley High School. The project aims to contribute to research about the role of diversity in school reform efforts, and is also designed to achieve comprehensive change and improvement at Berkeley High School. The project is led by a team consisting of teachers, staff, administrators, parents, students, and university researchers, all of whom share responsibility for directing the project.
The research component of the project aims to identify the factors that contribute to under-achievement among disadvantaged students and to understand the ways in which racial identity and school performance become linked. To accomplish this, we are surveying and monitoring the performance of the class of 2000 for four years. We also will analyze social networks at the school in order to understand the forces that lead to resegregation within the school. The reform component of the project is intended to produce a comprehensive change in the structure and culture of the school such that greater educational equity and improved race relations among students and staff are achieved.
The principal investigator is Jabari Mahiri. Funding for the project is from the San Francisco Foundation, a Hewlett-Annenberg Challenge Grant/Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (BASRC), the Vanguard Foundation, the Berkeley Pledge of the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of California Office of the President.
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