Sentences with phrase «history of desegregation»

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I'm only just starting this one, but I can already see that it's more social - history - driven than Free for All, including some fascinating insights on how such seemingly far - flung issues as race, desegregation and gender have played into the development of the current school lunch program.

The history of magnet schools goes back to districts addressing the issues with desegregation in the 1960s.

Wolters constructs a largely chronological history since the first half century of the 1954 Brown decision, and his case studies of desegregation - in - action are drawn from contemporary news coverage and subsequent historical, legal, and political science scholarship.

There's no denying the state's racist history of school segregation or its ugly efforts in the late 1960s and early 1970s to undermine desegregation orders by helping white children to evade racially integrated schools.

And this is an important point to make if we are ever going to convince parents — as we must, given the troubled history of legislating school desegregation — to voluntarily enroll their children in racially and economically diverse schools.

My dissertation offers an urban history of Chicago's magnet schools, one of the nation's earliest experiments in choice - driven school desegregation.

His dissertation offers a history of Chicago's magnet schools, tracing the role of voluntary school desegregation in shaping urban multiculturalism in the post-civil rights era.

With the rise of right - wing federalism, desegregation was no longer an important goal, and the rest is the history we are now living.

The discovery led Jackson to use the properties of color perception as an aesthetic strategy for investigating the history of American school desegregation and the contemporary resegregation of public space.

Boston's school desegregation case is a seminal chapter in the city's history and part of America's painful interracial narrative.