Sentences with phrase «on racial integration»

Amid the civil rights movement of the 1960s, a number of states developed policies or enacted laws on racial integration in the schools, including California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, said Gary Orfield, a professor of education and law at the University of California, Los Angeles, who is a director of the university's Civil Rights Project.

The Supreme Court began its long withdrawal from the civil rights fray in the early 1970s, after two decades of activism on racial integration.

What makes LAUSD even more unique is their focus on racial integration.

She has worked with national organizations to present social science evidence in U.S. Supreme Court cases on racial integration, on state and national initiatives to improve interracial relations in schools, and with non-governmental and international organizations to evaluate applied programs designed to reduce racial and ethnic conflict.

The study found that «the overwhelming majority (83 percent)[of LSP transfers] have positive impacts on the racial integration of the student's sending school.»

• Effects on Racial Integration.

Not exact matches

In those days at least we had the sense that the government, the courts and public opinion were on the side of racial integration.

The school board in Montgomery County, an affluent suburb of Washington noted for the quality of its schools and its voluntary efforts at integration, «violated its own regulations and procedures» on racial balance and building use in the cases of four schools, said Mitchell J. Cooper, a Washington lawyer acting as adviser to the state board.

Statewide, 83 percent of LSP transfers positively affect racial integration in the sending schools, and LSP transfers have no significant effect on integration in receiving schools.

Recent issues have included stories on teaching with web technology, racial integration, and coaching as a resource.

Why a Good Racial Mix May Also Create a Sense of Comfort at School (The Christian Science Monitor) Lee Teitel weighs in on integration in schools and how there is a need to focus on what is happening in schools, not just the demographic make - up of its students.

Ed Next also published a timely study this fall looking at the effects of the vouchers on segregation «The Louisiana Scholarship Program: Contrary to Justice Department claims, students transfers improve racial integration»

«When you see a school and community that put a lot of thought and effort [into] investing in the promise of racial integration, it's like a little miracle,» says Saxena, reflecting on a recent trip to the Community Roots Charter School, a preK — 8 school located in Brooklyn.

African - American parents, by an overwhelming margin, want the public schools to focus on achievement rather than on racial diversity and integration, a survey released last week says.

Integration Ambassadors: A Grassroots Organization of Parents and Educators in Greater Hartford, Connecticut, Keeps Racial and Economic Diversity in Schools and on Agendas by Susan Eaton (2013)

Proponents jumped on board the campaign with all sorts of promises that the standards were a civil rights cause, declaring them to be «Brown 2.0 ″ for education — a reference to Brown vs. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court case mandating racial integration in public schools.

Beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, nationwide efforts to dismantle segregation and integrate schools through anti-discrimination lawsuits, although modestly successful on occasion, have ultimately foundered, producing neither dramatic racial integration nor significant improvements in academic outcomes for black students.

After decades of improvement, efforts to improve integration on racial and socioeconomic measures have stagnated or moved backward in public schools.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has been asked to investigate the effect of current school policies on racial and socioeconomic integration and student education outcomes, including proficiency rates, high school graduation and dropout rates, and rates of college enrollment and completion.

In coordination with the National Coalition on School Diversity, Magnet Schools of America has promoted this action and also recommends that states include racial and socioeconomic integration goals in their accountability systems.

It shines a whole new light on the inner workings of New York's art museums at the height of the struggle for racial integration, and yet gives little insight on the racist operations that continue to plague our art system today — which perhaps is made most evident when Cahan solemnly asks, «Why five decades later, do we find many of the same challenges in the major museums?»

Others focus more on issues like gender identity, racial integration and sensitivity, and cultural displacement.

BUILD's broad set of resources provide significant information on state and community strategies to advance the quality of early childhood systems components and to promote racial equity, cross-systems alignment and integration.