Sentences with phrase «desegregation policies»

White flight almost certainly altered the effects of desegregation policies in many cities, especially in places such as the Northeast, where school districts within metropolitan areas tend to be small and numerous.

Both the medical school and hospital adopt desegregation policies related to education, employment and patient care.

As long as American citizens value neighborhood schools, discussions of school desegregation policies must be rooted in data about residential segregation.

Indeed, one wonders if Connecticut officials had forced Hartford's charters to abide by desegregation policies all along, would the city have reached its Sheff goals long ago, saving the state millions of dollars?

In connection with his HarvardX course, «Saving Schools,» Paul E. Peterson sits down with James Ryan, the dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to discuss the legacy of desegregation policy on American schools.

Nearly 58 years after Brown v. Board of Education, desegregation policies seem to be moving in the wrong direction, write the authors of Integrating Schools in a Changing Society.

Through her involvement as a research assistant for the CRP — a position she started in 2005 when she was still a doctoral student at HGSE — Garces has served as counsel of record in three amicus curiae briefs for the Supreme Court, including the recent Fisher v. University of Texas, and previously on a case involving the constitutionality of K — 12 voluntary desegregation policies.

But, thanks to an apparently unprecedented desegregation policy adopted by the Palm Beach County school board, at least one developer here recently has been going out of its way to reach the African - American market.

Second, the authors present findings from focus groups with parents of school - age children, describing their views on specific desegregation policies.

Whereas in Mockingbird he opposed the bigots, in Watchman he joins them as they organize to resist the implementation of desegregation policies in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education.

It reported that most districts — 92 of them, in fact — adopted desegregation policies that combined two or more highly race - conscious strategies, for example, rezoning or pairing.

Her current research focuses on the role of social networks in the acquisition, use, and diffusion of research evidence in education; school desegregation policies; and linkages between education, housing, health, and other policies to bring about regional equity.

A recent meta - analysis found «growing but still inconclusive evidence» that the achievement of more advantaged students was not harmed by desegregation policies (Harris, 2008, p. 563).

Though the program falls under the law's choice provisions, the federal government still considers magnets an important aspect of desegregation policy, defining a magnet school as one that «offers a special curriculum capable of attracting substantial numbers of students of different racial backgrounds.»

We find that black achievement levels are negatively associated with the percentage black in a grade, indicating that desegregation policies that reduced this percentage were having the desired effect.

These findings highlight the effects of inertia and indifference towards integration in U.S. schools since the l970s, as well as the Supreme Court's reversal of desegregation policies.

Since then, he said, many of the desegregation policies have been «repealed or interpreted away, or died of little use.»