Sentences with phrase «desegregation movement»

School finance reforms are perhaps the largest national effort we have made to increase equality of educational opportunity since the school desegregation movement.

The desegregation movement that transformed the South during the 1960s began at Central High School in Little Rock.

Susan Eaton and Steven Rivkin discuss the state of the desegregation movement and what it has accomplished.

This is not to imply that the original argument can simply be readjusted in light of the failure of the desegregation movement.

At 6:30 p.m. Thursday, the Brooklyn Historical Society will hold «The Changing Face of Activism,» which will explore the historical progression of activism from the 1960s desegregation movement to the present day Black Lives Matter movement.

The statement compared the current push for police reform to the desegregation movement of the 1960s.

Not exact matches

«My intense desire to see my school excel comes not only from an unwavering belief that all students deserve an excellent education, but also the unique role Sousa played in the civil rights movement,» said Kamras referring to a challenge to segregation at Sousa that culminated in Bolling v. Sharpe, the 1954 Supreme Court case that paved the way for the desegregation of all DC public schools.

The report finds that in the past decade there has been backward movement for desegregation in U.S. schools, especially for Latino and African - American students, and particularly in the South; and that Asian students are the most integrated and most successful students by far.

The school desegregation suit in D.C. truly bubbled up from the ground, a history lesson that resonates with contemporary social movements.

At the same time, the civil rights movement achieved major gains, and the schools became the focus of national legislation and Supreme Court rulings that required desegregation.

The new movement for privatization has enabled school choice to transcend its tarnished history as an escape route for southern whites who sought to avoid court - ordered desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s.

They focus on three of the movement's major events: the murder and trial of Emmett Till, voter discrimination in the South, and the struggle over school desegregation in Boston.

These included movements outside education (civil rights, anti-apartheid) as well as inside education (bilingual education, multicultural education, desegregation).

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.

Tillie Harris speaks to us from 1991 but most of the narrative is spent reflecting on the year 1975; a time of banana seat bicycles, the growing feminist movement, school desegregation, and upheaval within the Harris family.

The site features a desegregation timeline, biographies and bibliographies of the reporters and writers, perspectives on reporting offered by journalists who covered the civil rights movement, and a collection of related resources on the Web.

It had been a decade for sure in Alabama, for example, before you started to see any earnest movement toward broad - based desegregation.