Sentences with phrase «about school desegregation»

He has written about school desegregation, school choice, standards, education finance, testing, special education and neuroscience, according to the Harvard Graduate School of Education website.

James Ryan, the new dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (GSE), argues persuasively that the second most significant ruling about school desegregation is Milliken v. Bradley, which the Court decided in 1974.

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There's also a whole discussion about the fact that schools that are more racially diverse seem to have more stratification, so the reality of desegregation isn't what we thought / think it would be.

These «findings» by the lower court about the purported benefits of neighborhood schools were based entirely on the claims of Oklahoma City School District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oSchool District officials, claims which are currently echoed across the country by school districts seeking to be released from their desegregation oschool districts seeking to be released from their desegregation orders.

The report also indicates that controlled choice — a type of voluntary desegregation that allows parents some choice about which schools their children will attend — and other desegregation efforts benefit minority students.

In an article about Frankenberg's study that was published in The Birmingham News in December, U.W. Clemon, a retired U.S. district court judge who was involved in desegregation cases in the 1960s, said that as a result of fragmentation, the schools in Jefferson County are «resegregated» today, and not by accident.

Like a growing number of other school districts, Denver is coming to terms with the end of a court desegregation order that for years profoundly influenced, and often dictated, many of the decisions about education policy made there.

To judge by the quality of the educational evaluation work I know best — on school desegregation, Comer's School Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectivschool desegregation, Comer's School Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectivSchool Development Program, and bilingual education — the average quasi-experiment in these fields inspires little confidence in its conclusions about effectiveness.

«Amid the ceaseless and cacophonous debates about how to close the achievement gap, we've turned away from one tool that has been shown to work: school desegregation.

About the Report This report examines a decade of resegregation from the time of the Supreme Court's 1991 Dowell decision, which allowed school districts to declare themselves unitary, end their desegregation plans, and to return to neighborhood school plans that produce intense segregation and inequality clearly visible in educational opportunities and outcomes.

But it seems clear that passage of the measure, which appears on the state's Nov. 5 ballot as Proposition 209, would raise questions about a host of programs that public K - 12 schools and colleges offer — from voluntary desegregation efforts to certain tutoring and outreach programs.

In an interview, the schools chief talked about where he differs from Mayor de Blasio, his commitment to desegregation and his vision for the system.

Columbia University professor Amy Stuart Wells, for example, concluded that the decisions of St. Louis parents participating in a voluntary desegregation program were based «on a perception that county is better than city and white is better than black, not on factual information about the schools.»

For the last half - century, just about every education reform — from desegregation to school choice — has taken care to keep city and suburban schools and students separate.

«We welcome the court's order, as it rejects the state's bid to resist providing even the most basic information about how Louisiana's voucher program will affect school desegregation efforts,» Attorney General Eric Holder said.

Although overshadowed by more spectacular conflicts over desegregation, community control, and open schooling, the movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s generated more than 70 state laws seeking to create educational accountability and hundreds of articles, pamphlets, and books about how to create more efficient and accountable educational systems.

To me, it's completely unrelated to the agenda from Brown, which was about getting equal access to educational opportunities for students — you know, initially through desegregation, but the heritage of Brown is also a large number of school finance reform lawsuits that have been trying to advocate for equitable resource distribution between districts and schools.

The forced desegregation brought about by Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 meant that inner city whites set up private schools of their own (often in the suburbs) which didn't have to follow the letter of the law.