Mickelson, R.A. (2018). Effects of School Ethnic and Socioeconomic Composition on Outcomes for US Students and Society.: A Synthesis of Social Science Research. In Understanding School Segregation: Patterns, Causes and Consequences of Spatial Inequalities in Education , Xavier Bonal and Cristian Bellie (Eds), London: Bloomsbury.
Mickelson, R. A., Giersch, J., Nelson, A. H., & Bottia, M. (2018). “Do Charter Schools Undermine Efforts to Create Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Public Schools?” in Iris Rotberg and Joshua L. Glazer (Eds) Choosing Charters. Better Schools or More Segregation? New York: Teachers College Press.
Mickelson, R. A. (2016). “The Accidental Sociologist of Education: How My Life in Schools Became My Research” in Alan Sadovnik and Ryan Coughlan, (Eds) Intellectual Self-Portraits of Leaders in Educational Thought in the Sociology of Education. New York: Taylor & Francis.
Mickelson, R. A., Parker, A., Stearns, Moller, S., & Dancy, M. (2016). “Family Matters: Familial Support and African American Female STEM Success.” In Contemporary African American Families: Achievements, Challenges, and Empowerment Strategies in the 21st Century. D. Ruiz-Smith & S. Lawson Clark (Eds.). New York: Routledge-Taylor & Francis.
Mickelson, R. A., Bottia, M., Larimore, S., & Lambert, R. (2015). “Does School Racial Composition Matter for Achievement? Findings from Metaregression Analyses of the Effects of School Racial and Ethnic Composition on K-12 Reading and Mathematics Test Scores Since 1990.” In In Erica Frankenberg, Liliana Garces, & Megan Hopkins (Eds.). (2015) School Integration Matters. Research-based Strategies to Advance Equity. New York: Teachers College Press.
Mickelson, R. A., Smith, Stephen S., & Hawn Nelson, A. (2015). “Structure and Agency in the Resegregation of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.” In Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Mickelson, R. A., Smith, Stephen S., Southworth, S., & Trull, S. L. (2015). “Academic Genocide on the Westside: West Charlotte High School in the Post-Swann Era.” In Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press. Smith, Stephen S., Mickelson, R. A., & Hawn Nelson, A. (2015). “Obligation and Opportunity: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Face the Future.” In Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. School Desegregation and Resegregation in Charlotte. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Mickelson, R. A., Bottia, M., & Southworth, S. (2013). “School Choice and Segregation by Race, Class, and Ability” in Gary Miron, Kevin Welner, Patricia Hinchey, & W. Mathis, (Eds.). Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Mickelson, R. A. (2012). “Exploring the School-Housing Nexus: A Synthesis of Social Science Evidence” in P. Tegeler and C. Hartman (Eds.). Coordinating Housing and Education Policy to Support Racial and Economic Integration, Washington, DC: PRRAC.
Mickelson, R. A., Cousins, L., Williams, B., & Velasco, A. (2012). “Taking Math & Science to Black Parents: Promises and Challenges of a Community-based Intervention for Educational Change.” In Tate, W.F. (Ed.). Research on schools, neighborhoods, and communities: Toward civic responsibility. Presidential Volume. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Mickelson, R. A., Smith, S.S., & Southworth, S. (2009). “The Chimera of Choice. Post-unitary Charlotte’s Rapid Resegregation” in Claire Smrekar (Ed.) Court-Ended Desegregation: The Reconstitution of Schools and Communities. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Mickelson, R. A. (2009). “Race, Ethnicity, and Education” p. 240-257 In Handbook on Education Policy Research David Plank, Barbara Schneider, & Gary Sykes (Eds.). Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.
Mickelson, R. A. (2008). “Foreword” Pp. i-ivx in John U. Ogbu. Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, and Schooling. John Ogbu (ed). New York: Routledge.
Mickelson, R. A., & Cousins, L. (2008). “Undermining Racially Correlated Tracking Through Empowering Minority Parent Involvement. in Everyday Antiracism; Concrete Ways to Successfully Navigate the Relevance of Race in School Mica Pollack (Ed.). The New Press.
Mickelson, R. A. (2008). “The Persistent Paradox: Race, Gender, and Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Achievement” in Minority Status, Oppositional Culture, and Schooling. John Ogbu (ed). New York: Routledge.
Mickelson, R. A. & Velasco, Anne. (2006). “Bring It On. Diverse Responses to “Acting White” Among Academically Able African Americans,” in Beyond Acting White: Reassessments and New Directions in Research on Black Students and School Success, Erin McNamara Horvat & Carla O’Connor ( Eds), New York: Teachers College Press.
Mickelson, R. A. (2005). “The Incomplete Desegregation of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools” in Resegregation of the American South Jack Boger, and Gary Orfield (Eds.), Chapel Hill: North Carolina University Press.
Mickelson, R. A. (2005). “Maximizing Choice and Diversity in Public Education” in School Choice and Student Diversity: Examining the Evidence, Janelle Scott (Ed.), Teachers College Press.
Mickelson, R. A. (2005). “How Tracking Undermines Race Equity in Desegregated Schools.” in Bringing Equity Back In, Amy Stuart Wells and Janice Petrovich (Eds.), Teachers College Press.
Mickelson, R. A. (2003). “White Privilege in a Desegregated School System” in The End of Desegregation? Carl Bankston and Steven Caldas (Eds.), New York: Basic Books.
Mickelson, R. A. (2000). “Globalization, Childhood Poverty, and Education in the Americas” in Children on the
Streets of the Americas. Globalization, Homelessness, and Education in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, (Ed.). New York: Routledge.
Mickelson, R. A. (2000). “Children on the Streets of the Americas: Implications for Social Policy and Educational Practice” in Children on the Streets of the Americas. Globalization, Homelessness, and Education in the United States, Brazil, and Cuba, Roslyn Arlin Mickelson, (Ed.). New York: Routledge.
Mickelson, R. A. (2000). “Corporations in Classrooms: Critical Reflections on Business Involvement in Urban School Reform” in Carlos Torres, Theodore Mitchell, Karen McLafferty (Eds.), Challenges for Urban Education: Sociological Perspectives for the Next Century, Albany: SUNY Press.
Mickelson, R. A. (1997). “Can Education Eliminate Race, Class, and Gender Inequality?” in M. Andersen and P. Hill-Collins (Eds.), Race, Class, and Gender Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, pp. 328-340.
Mickelson, R. A. (1995). “Reading Reality More Closely Than Books: The Opportunity Structure and Adolescent Achievement,” in Peter Cookson, Jr. and Barbara Schneider (Eds.) Transforming Schools, New York: Garland Publishing Co., lead author with Sumie Okazaki and Dunchun Zheng, pp. 81-105.
Mickelson, R. A. (1995). “Slipping Through the Cracks: Educating Homeless Children,” in Leo Rigsby, Maynard Reynolds and Margaret Wang (Eds.) School-Community Connections. Exploring Issues for Research and Practice, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, lead author with M.G. Yon and I. Carlton-LaNey, pp. 357-393.
Mickelson, R. A., Ray, C. A., & Smith, S. S. (1993). “The Growth Machine and the Politics of Urban Educational Reform: The Case of Charlotte, North Carolina,” in Nelly Stromquist (Ed.), Education in the Urban Context, New York: Praeger, pp. 169-198.
Mickelson, R. A., Smith, S. S., & Oliver, M. (1993). “Breaking Through the Barriers: African American Job Candidates and the Academic Hiring Process,” in Lois Weis and Michele Fine (Eds.), Beyond Silenced Voices: Class, Race, and Gender in United States Schools, Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 9-24.
Oliver, M. L., & Mickelson, R. A. (1991). “Making the Short List: Black Faculty in Higher Education” in Philip G. Altbach and Kofi Lomotey (Eds.), The Racial Crisis in Higher Education: Problems and Solutions, Albany: State University of New York Press, pp. 149-166.
Mickelson, R. A., & Oliver, M. L. (1991). “The Demographic Fallacy of the Black Academic: Does Quality Rise to the Top?” in Walter Allen, Edgar Epps, and Nesha A. Haniff (Eds.), College in Black and White: African American Students in Predominantly White and Historically Black Universities, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991, pp. 177-196.
Mickelson, R. A., & Ray, C. A. (1990). “Corporate Leaders and School Reform” in Douglas Mitchell and Peg Goertz (Eds.), Education Politics for the New Century: The 20th Anniversary Yearbook of the Politics of Education Association, New York: Falmer Press, pp. 119-136.
Mickelson, R. A., & Smith, S. S. (1989). “Inner City Social Dislocations and School Outcomes Among Poor Black Youth: A Structural Interpretation” in Gordon L. Berry and Joy Asamen (Eds.), Black Students Psychosocial Issues and Academic Achievement, Newbury Park, CA: Sage, pp. 99-119.