Racial desegregation in the schools can not take place in isolation but must be part of a broad attack on bias in many directions.
Not exact matches
The most celebrated example of Federal intervention
in state and local school affairs is the 1954
racial desegregation decision of the United States Supreme Court.
Targeting additional resources to early childhood education, extended day, summer programs, prudent class - size reduction, or enhanced accountability structures is likely to have a higher return
in these communities than
racial desegregation efforts.
What role should
racial desegregation play
in 21st - century school improvement?
After greatly increasing
desegregation of public schools a generation ago, the United States public education system is now steadily consolidating a trend toward
racial resegregation that began
in the late 1980s, according to a new study by The Civil Rights Project and researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Contrary to allegations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the scholarship program improves
racial integration
in public schools
in 34 districts under
desegregation orders
In the wake of Boston's painful desegregation process in 1974, monies were made available to fund such projects in schools where racial tensions had not only simmered, but boiled ove
In the wake of Boston's painful
desegregation process
in 1974, monies were made available to fund such projects in schools where racial tensions had not only simmered, but boiled ove
in 1974, monies were made available to fund such projects
in schools where racial tensions had not only simmered, but boiled ove
in schools where
racial tensions had not only simmered, but boiled over.
Today, questions about the effects of changes
in housing patterns and recent Supreme Court decisions that weaken
desegregation efforts remain central to discussions of educational opportunity and
racial achievement gaps.
That seminal law explicitly states that «
desegregation» means the assignment of students to schools «without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin,» and shall not be interpreted to mean «the assignment of students to public schools
in order to overcome
racial imbalance.»
But
in a new article for Education Next, «
Desegregation Since the Coleman Report:
Racial composition of schools and student learning,» Steven Rivkin of the University of Illinois at Chicago identifies a key trend masquerading as resegregation: the decreasing enrollment share of white students due to the increasing ethnic diversity of public schools.
Numerous
racial -
desegregation cases,
in which the goal of integration to remedy intentional discrimination is relatively clear, have lasted for decades.
San Francisco's groundbreaking economic -
desegregation plan satisfies the short - term goals of the litigants — creating a student - assignment system that avoids
racial quotas, passes constitutional muster, yet also maintains a degree of
racial diversity
in the schools, given the connection between
racial and economic status.
School
desegregation provoked
racial conflict
in Birmingham, Montgomery, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Detroit, New York City, and other cities across the country, often for years at a time.
Richard Kahlenberg makes the kind of very clean and uncompromising argument typical of believers
in forced
desegregation, whether based on
racial or,
in this case, economic status.
Representatives
in a long - running
desegregation lawsuit involving Mississippi's higher education system have reached a $ 503 million settlement that is intended to address decades of deliberate
racial segregation
in state colleges and universities.
In a 70 - page opinion, U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch released the Denver schools from 21 years of federal oversight and upheld a 1974 amendment to the state constitution prohibiting districts not under federal
desegregation orders from busing children for
racial balance.
Leaving the
desegregation orders
in place, he nevertheless acknowledged that the state's data showed that vouchers were promoting
racial balance and said he did not want to scuttle the program.
(b) «
Desegregation» means the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin, but «desegregation» shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome raci
Desegregation» means the assignment of students to public schools and within such schools without regard to their race, color, religion, or national origin, but «
desegregation» shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools in order to overcome raci
desegregation» shall not mean the assignment of students to public schools
in order to overcome
racial imbalance.
Thinking more broadly, if
desegregation and integration were really such a disaster
in terms of American race relations, how is one to explain the plethora of statistical and anecdotal evidence suggesting a dramatic liberalization
in racial attitudes during the past four decades?
Her research interests focus on
racial desegregation and inequality
in K - 12 schools, and the connections between school segregation and other metropolitan policies.
Soon after Brown's federal
desegregation orders, North Carolina's lawmakers developed the Pearsall Plan, which, according to the North Carolina Division of Non-Public Education's website, «was essentially a voucher program to provide funding for student attendance at non-public schools
in order to avoid anticipated
racial strife envisioned as a result of the public school integration mandate.»
In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregatio
In the fight over how to close the
racial achievement gap
in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregatio
in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale:
desegregation.
I am focusing on magnet schools
in this essay because these schools are designed to have a specific
racial balance
in order to achieve the goal of desegregating Connecticut's public schools, yet demographics play out differently depending on the school, and some schools are struggling to maintain their required
desegregation standards.
Black students across the country experienced gains
in school
desegregation from the l960s to the late l980s, a time
in which
racial achievement gaps also narrowed sharply.
In 1974, the Supreme Court struck down the desegregation order — a landmark ruling that relieved suburban districts of their burden to help ease racial disparities in the city and set the stage for a long battle over whose responsibility it was to lift the Detroit school system out of its quagmir
In 1974, the Supreme Court struck down the
desegregation order — a landmark ruling that relieved suburban districts of their burden to help ease
racial disparities
in the city and set the stage for a long battle over whose responsibility it was to lift the Detroit school system out of its quagmir
in the city and set the stage for a long battle over whose responsibility it was to lift the Detroit school system out of its quagmire.
Racial isolation has discouraging repercussions, according to Howell Baum, the author of» «Brown»
in Baltimore: School
Desegregation and the Limits of Liberalism.»
When one of the attorneys
in the famous Sheff
desegregation case said, «the state has an obligation to provide great, racially diverse schools,» Connecticut's Supreme Court agreed and ordered the legislature to take definitive action to reduce
racial isolation
in the state's urban public schools.
While the end of court - ordered
desegregation measures has caused a modest increase
in segregation within public school districts, a large majority of
racial segregation occurs across district lines.
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.
In 1969,
desegregation by use of student
racial ratios and mandated crosstown busing was put into effect.
(2) signed by an individual, or his parent, to the effect that he has been denied admission to or not permitted to continue
in attendance at a public college by reason of race, color, religion, or national origin, and the Attorney General believes the complaint is meritorious and certifies that the signer or signers of such complaint are unable,
in his judgment, to initiate and maintain appropriate legal proceedings for relief and that the institution of an action will materially further the orderly achievement of
desegregation in public education, the Attorney General is authorized, after giving notice of such complaint to the appropriate school board or college authority and after certifying that he is satisfied that such board or authority has had a reasonable time to adjust the conditions alleged
in such complaint, to institute for or
in the name of the United States a civil action
in any appropriate district court of the United States against such parties and for such relief as may be appropriate, and such court shall have and shall exercise jurisdiction of proceedings instituted pursuant to this section, provided that nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a
racial balance
in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another
in order to achieve such
racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.
«As the process of
racial desegregation unfolded
in the United States, there was a clear need to update signage and re-educate the public.
As the spokesman points out, this is an example of a cultural change that started
in the military sector and spread to become part of civilian culture (
racial desegregation under President Harry Truman may qualify as another example).
What if there were a site that — for every U.S. public school district — tracked data on
desegregation cases and linked it to trends
in racial composition from 1968 - 2000?