Sentences with phrase «focused on desegregation»

Maran offers a five - point plan focused on desegregation, better pay for teachers, and more community and family involvement.

Steven Rivkin, professor of economics at Amherst College, questioned a focus on desegregation and pointed out complexities to the issue that researchers have barely begun to examine.

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In a tour de force that will likely be debated for decades to come, Souter focused on two cases: the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation case of 1954, and the New York Times Co. v. United States Pentagon Papers case of 1971.

Willie focuses his research, teaching, and practice on education planning and school desegregation, the structure and process of family life, community organization, race and...

Some of Willie's examples of hijacking included changing the idea of integration to desegregation, which negatively affects the Civil Rights Movement, or even focusing on closing the achievement gap rather than emphasizing helping each child reach his or her full potential.

Willie focuses his research, teaching, and practice on education planning and school desegregation, the structure and process of family life, community organization, race and ethnic relations, and public health.

One of Coleman's principal findings — often overlooked in the focus on the role of families, schools, and desegregation — was the shocking achievement disparities across races and regions within the United States.

Instead of focusing on remedying the harm done to those black schoolchildren injured by segregation, the District Court here sought to convert the Kansas City, Mo., School District into a «magnet district» that would reverse the «white flight» caused by desegregation.

Last semester students from Mehta's class presented a 22 - page wiki site focused on a wide range of hot topics in education policy including desegregation and METCO, teacher preparation, merit pay, and socioeconomic integration of schools.

Under the new program, however, magnet schools not only had to aid desegregation, but also had to focus on improving the quality of education in order to qualify for funds.

Rucker Johnson, a professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley, has studied the life trajectories of students born between 1945 and 1970, focusing on the effects that exposure to court - ordered desegregation had on their lives.

Her research interests focus on racial desegregation and inequality in K - 12 schools, and the connections between school segregation and other metropolitan policies.

Dr. Wells has focused her research on educational policy, race and education, charter schools, school desegregation, and school choice.

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.

33 And in a twist, the proposal also highlighted the importance of economic integration: «Although desegregation rules focus exclusively on students» race or ethnic background, family income levels better determine children's preparation for school and academic success.»

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.

Beginning in 1975, the scope of Montessori in the public sector expanded as the War on Poverty shifted its focus to desegregation.

The report focuses in on Prince Edward County in Virginia, and the county's resistance to court - mandated desegregation.