Sentences with phrase «racial segregation»

Too often, gifted and talented programs are at risk of becoming a new site of racial segregation in schools.

The harmful effects of racial segregation in public schools are well documented.

Many charter schools do not provide these programs (or meals of any kind), resulting in the exclusion of low - income students and increased racial segregation.

Both studies showed that the net overall effect on racial segregation in schools is positive.

Peer tutoring could reduce racial segregation both within and between schools while narrowing the achievement gap.

Some of us who were so deeply involved in the urban mission, the fight against racial segregation.

According to the brief, which was published last month, the level of racial segregation for black students in charter schools is higher than it is in public schools.

Fifty years later, racial segregation among believers has declined.

This report provides a new, exhaustive analysis of racial segregation across the country.

While racial segregation in schools has been unconstitutional for over fifty years, Black students continue to face discrimination in the form of excessive school discipline.

Since people of color are disproportionately lower income and have less «capital» (e.g., down payment for a house), racial segregation also increases.

Moreover, given the history of forced racial segregation in our nation's schools, we must be ever - attentive to these issues.

The show's title evokes a very particular historical moment, specifically American racial segregation against blacks in the late 19th to mid 20th centuries.

That list is comprised of stories about immigration and overcoming racial segregation and gender inequality.

For, he was black and she was white, and this was 1946, a time of strict racial segregation.

A new policy brief from a civil rights group is calling on the federal government to do more to counter racial segregation in the nation's growing population of charter schools.

Since economic segregation closely mirrors racial segregation, integrating schools by income will help create racial and ethnic diversity as well, and this form of diversity produces numerous benefits.

I think racial segregation is probably less important than economic segregation.

The figure below provides an illustration of the degree of racial segregation even among households with the same incomes.

For example, although there are no longer laws that allow racial segregation, a state's housing and school choice laws affect the student demographics of schools.

This report considers the educational consequences of the considerable racial segregation that remains in schools today and the potential of controlled choice to address them.

The best answer, in my view, is that the consequences of racial segregation for student learning are probably adverse but not severely so.

To put those numbers in perspective, the authors note that this level of segregation is roughly equal to and sometimes exceeds the level of racial segregation in many cities.

New York state is joining a lawsuit filed against the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and Secretary Ben Carson over a decision to delay an Obama - era rule intended to ensure that communities address racial segregation.

The real diversity among Christian schools and the fact that they do serve public purposes do not put to rest all of the standard critiques of Christian schooling — concerns about racial segregation, authoritarianism, dogmatism, insularity, and social inequality.

Established by Congress in 2001, the commission planned activities marking the 50thanniversary this year of the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown decision, which outlawed racial segregation in public schools.

Discriminatory laws enforcing racial segregation have been declared unconstitutional and abolished, while the dream of Martin Luther King (that every individual be judged by the content of his character and not the color of his skin) has been integrated into the American dream itself in a way that only Lincoln's Gettysburg image (a government of, by, and for the people) had been previously.

Sussman is a 1978 Honors Graduate of Harvard Law School and has been one of the Hudson Valley's most prominent civil rights and trial lawyers since the 1980's when, as lead counsel for the Yonkers Branch of the NAACP, he helped end racial segregation in the City of Yonkers public schools.

Wake Up Rockland, one of McWilliams» recent projects, also received attention and provoked controversy with a silent demonstration against racial segregation at the Rockland Kosher Supermarket in Monsey.

Transfers can't exacerbate racial segregation, and a district can't take so many students that the transfers undermine another district's financial stability.

For example, the News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington published a story on June 5, 1992 concerning Seattle Mayor Norm Rice's criticism «equating the military's ban on homosexuals with racial segregation.»

It is a horible policy - but it simply isn't the equivalent of racial segregation by law in the US South pre-1964, or apartheid South Africa, or ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

But in today's world many of us will have to work wherever we can find work, though some jobs would have to be refused: being a bomber pilot in another Vietnam - like war, working in a corrupt business, or serving in a church that still practices racial segregation.

Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, which banned racial segregation in the schools, the basic principle of American education has been equality of educational opportunity.

Student courage at lunch counter sit - ins and on Freedom Rides led the way to end to legally - sanctioned racial segregation in America, and they were in the forefront of the movement that forced a President from office and, eventually, an end to the war in Vietnam.

Consider some aspects of the American history of racial and ethnic relations: Systematic racial segregation emerged in the South after the failure of Reconstruction, while in the 1880s a growing California banned Chinese immigration and in the early twentieth century ethnic politics, often bitter and sometimes violent, dominated major American cities.

«Because neighborhood racial segregation remains higher among children than adults, children may face greater consequences of any rollbacks of support for fair housing policies.»

With a nod to Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's 1954 decision banning state - imposed racial segregation in schools, the Rodriguez court recognized «the vital role of education in a free society.»

Owens said she is working on a similar study of racial segregation trends among households with and without children.

Owens found that neighborhood racial segregation across the country appeared to be driven largely by white families with children who are choosing, consciously or not, to move to neighborhoods and school districts with fewer minorities.

In A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education, Richard D. Kahlenberg (author of the excellent Shanker biography Tough Liberal) and his Century Foundation colleague Halley Potter (a former teacher at Two Rivers Public Charter School in D.C.) weigh today's charter movement against Shanker's vision and find it too market - driven, too willing to tolerate racial segregation, and overall, disappointing.

The major flaw in this system — de jure racial segregation — has been ended.

Indeed a hot topic this year has been the spotlight on the severe economic and racial segregation within New York City Public Schools (NYCPS).

The New Jersey Board of Education has the power to combine school districts if necessary to eliminate de facto racial segregation, a state appeals court has ruled.

Texas could be a national leader in supporting these innovative schools and it could not come at a better time with race relations suffering across the nation and schools experiencing severe racial segregation.