Sentences with phrase «leading desegregation»

It is a big deal when as christians we should be leading the desegregation of these social frontiers... I challenge all christians to seek fellowship w / churches in your local area, that are predominantly of different races.

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Questioning and tossing out old, obsolete ideas is what led to desegregation, women's right to vote, gay marriage (albeit as slow as molasses), and even many simple everyday things.

In fact, social conservatives in the USA, led by Christian conservatives, have fought or disagreed with religious diversity, religious equality, abolition of slavery, Suffrage, desegregation, integrating the armed forces, Brown v Board of Education, mixed race marriages, respect and equality for Jews (not in MY country club!)

He said Rob Astorino's views on abortion, immigration and housing desegregation make him too conservative to lead New York.

School desegregation reduced the impact of a geographic catchment area within a larger school district, but it also led to «white flight» to suburban schools and parochial schools (i.e. church run schools, often Catholic in Northern cities and historically white Evangelical protestant in the South).

EN: What's the evidence that desegregation leads to academic benefits for poor or minority students?

As a result, many districts that originally faced court - ordered desegregation are having these requirements eliminated by lower courts that are following the Supreme Courts lead.

But perhaps this changes when school desegregation leads to cross-ethnic friendships within the school.

Nearly six years after Connecticut's landmark desegregation order, the group that initiated the lawsuit that led to the ruling is asking the courts to step in again — this time with a plan of its own that proposes how state leaders should carry out the mandate.

In earlier eras, reformers wanted such things as a better curriculum, better - prepared teachers, better funding, more equitable funding, smaller classes, and desegregation, which they believed would lead to better public schools.

States and local school districts violated Brown, lawsuits or non-violent protests (which often provoked violent reprisals) eventually led to desegregation orders, and then great vigilance was required to ensure those orders were enforced.

The Spring 2016 issue of Education Next features articles by leading scholars that revisit and update Coleman's findings on desegregation, the achievement gap, school choice, teacher quality, the role of the family, and academic games.

Topics range from desegregation and busing, the Cold War, interviews with and performances by leading dancers, writers and poets, and much more.

From the time of desegregation forward, disillusionment with integration and the failure to improve education in many urban communities led to the development of «independent black schools.»

As Director of Desegregation for Cambridge Public Schools, Dr. Kohn led the development of the first voluntarily formulated desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board Desegregation for Cambridge Public Schools, Dr. Kohn led the development of the first voluntarily formulated desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board desegregation plan to be approved by Massachusetts State Board of Education.

He now leads the charge for desegregation and equal educational opportunity in the 50,000 - student district.

-- A Republican - led effort to dismantle the desegregation plan in Louisville appears to have failed — at least this time around: The Washington Post.

The bigger problem lies at the fatal conceit of the view of the NAACP and its allies in the ivory tower: That economic and racial desegregation will lead to improvements in student achievement.

Narrowing the achievement gap will require housing desegregation: voiding exclusionary zoning, placing low - and moderate - income housing in predominantly white suburbs, and ending federal subsidies for communities that fail to reverse policies that led to racial exclusion.

Because the court's conclusion led to the forbidding of even voluntary desegregation, magnet schools lost one of their mechanisms for creating racially diverse schools.

She helped lead the way in the desegregation of Houston schools in the 1960's and a decade later served as President and Treasurer of the Texas ACLU Foundation Board.

The discovery led Jackson to use the properties of color perception as an aesthetic strategy for investigating the history of American school desegregation and the contemporary resegregation of public space.

This heart - wrenching 2007 video explores the self - image of black children in the United States by repeating the historic doll test of Dr Kenneth Clark that led to school desegregation.