Since the launch of
school desegregation policies in the 1960s, magnet schools have demonstrated the effect of incentivizing voluntary integration, both in terms of socioeconomic status and race, among families.
Not exact matches
In recent weeks, Mayor Bill de Blasio's
policies have run up against an age - old forces of inertia and resistance in the city, especially one that springs forth in
policy debates on everything from housing to bike lanes to
school desegregation and even closing down Rikers Island jails.
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.
Like a growing number of other
school districts, Denver is coming to terms with the end of a court
desegregation order that for years profoundly influenced, and often dictated, many of the decisions about education
policy made there.
A federal appeals court in Boston has narrowly upheld a voluntary
desegregation plan in the Lynn, Mass.,
school district in a case that is being closely followed by supporters and critics of race - conscious
policies in K - 12
schooling.
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.
The timing coincides with the
desegregation of many
school districts, especially in the South, but other
policy, economic, and social changes may also have influenced the achievement gap.
Despite the challenges of isolating the impact of
school desegregation on student achievement, a small but growing body of research provides valuable evidence on the relationship between segregation
policies and students» academic and social outcomes.
Few remember that the Nixon administration conditioned federal aid to southern
schools on their compliance with
desegregation court orders; that
policy appears to have aided the
desegregation efforts that federal courts were insisting upon.
Trained as a historian under Harvard scholar Bernard Bailyn, Tyack believed that the careful sifting of past education
policies could inform policymakers» debates on reforms such as
desegregation, vouchers, charter
schools, and leadership.
Gary Orfield, professor of education and social
policy at HGSE, worked closely with Howe on the
desegregation of the San Francisco
school district.
NCLB is in many respects the latest in a long line of efforts in the
policy and legal arenas to promote equity and opportunity in the public
schools, including
desegregation cases, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the original ESEA, and
school finance and adequacy cases in the states.
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.
Professor Gary Orfield is Professor of Education and Social
Policy and founding Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University is the author of many books and articles on
school desegregation and other civil rights issues and his work was cited by the Supreme Court in its recent decision on affirmative action.
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.»
Exploring that question, we identify the personalities and historical forces — the progressives, racial
desegregation, legalization and collective bargaining — that shaped and re-shaped U.S.
school politics and
policy.
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.
Denver — The Denver
school board's proposal to end eight years of mandatory busing, formulated in response to a judge's request for a «unitary, non-racial» enrollment
policy, is not a
desegregation plan,
school officials admitted in federal district court last week.
There, in 2012 a public
school — choice
policy prescribed by No Child Left Behind (NCLB) fell afoul of the inherited judicial law of
desegregation.
Her research interests lie in
school desegregation and
policies surrounding parent and student choice.
«A Time for Sight: The Debate over Color Blindness and Race - Consciousness in
School Integration Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK in
School Integration
Policy,» Curriculum Connections In light of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Parents Involved in Community
Schools v. Seattle
School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK in
School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education, ADL offers this comprehensive lesson that examines the debate over
school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, AK in
school integration within the broader context of the Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 and the
desegregation of Central High
School in Little Rock, AK in
School in Little Rock, AK in 1957.
Every private
school participating in the voucher program must comply with the color - blind
policies of the federal
desegregation court orders.
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.
Yet
school desegregation is an issue that has been virtually absent from education reform debates and
policies enacted over the past 13 years.
Whereas, the Hawkins / Jones platform of a Green New Deal calls for equitable funding for all of our
schools, reduced class sizes across the state, support for programs that promote
desegregation in our
schools, an end to zero - tolerance discipline
policies driving the
school - to - prison pipeline, and allowing
schools to develop methods of assessment organic to the learning process, and
But since 1988, when education
policy shifted away from
desegregation efforts, the reading test score gap has grown — to 26 points in 2012 — with segregated
schooling increasing in every region of the country.
saying the
policy had been in place for 30 years, dating back to a time when
school districts across Mississippi came under close scrutiny from the U.S. Justice Department over
desegregation.