A handful of experimental
studies of desegregation programs compare participants with nonparticipants.
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.
Not exact matches
This is why I believe it's so important to
study both historical religious arguments supporting the abolition
of slavery and historical religious arguments opposing the abolition
of slavery (see my post on Mark Noll's The Civil War as a Theological Crisis» for a sampling), as well as historical religious arguments supporting
desegregation and historical religious arguments opposing
desegregation — not because I believe both sides are equal, but because the patterns
of argumentation that emerge are so unnervingly familiar:
A psychiatrist who
studied the effects
of the school
desegregation conflict on children in the Deep South reports: «I have been struck by how clearly young Negro children foresee the bleak future
of their lives.
His father, who had
studied chemistry but switched to law after World War II, helped draft guidelines for school
desegregation in the 1960s that were adopted by the federal government in its enforcement
of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964.
The
study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison
of the Harvard Project on School
Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time sanctioned a return to segregated schooling by stating that districts may be released from a desegregation order if they had met certai
Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time sanctioned a return to segregated schooling by stating that districts may be released from a
desegregation order if they had met certai
desegregation order if they had met certain conditions.
SE: In his seminal 1972
study titled Inequality, the Harvard - based sociologist and statistician Christopher Jencks wrote, «The case for or against
desegregation should not be argued in terms
of academic achievement.
«The Oklahoma City case
study suggests,» wrote Jellison, «that integration plans, with a great deal
of effort, can work more effectively and that courts, rather than releasing districts from
desegregation plans after only several years
of operation, should ensure that everything possible is being done to promote an integration plan's success.»
After greatly increasing
desegregation of public schools a generation ago, the United States public education system is now steadily consolidating a trend toward racial resegregation that began in the late 1980s, according to a new
study by The Civil Rights Project and researchers at the Harvard Graduate School
of Education.
The
study, «Resegregation and Equity in Oklahoma City,» authored by Jennifer Jellison
of the Harvard Project on School
Desegregation, examined the assumptions underlying the Supreme Court's 1991 Oklahoma City - based Dowell decision, a landmark decision that for the first time...
In an article about Frankenberg's
study that was published in The Birmingham News in December, U.W. Clemon, a retired U.S. district court judge who was involved in
desegregation cases in the 1960s, said that as a result
of fragmentation, the schools in Jefferson County are «resegregated» today, and not by accident.
Following a screening
of the documentary, Teach Us All, members
of the Little Rock Nine Minnijean Brown Trickey, visiting writer for Heritage
Studies at Arkansas State University, and Terrence Roberts, principal
of Terrence Roberts Consulting, will discuss their experiences during the
desegregation at Central High in Arkansas.
A decade later, the Ed School again tackled
desegregation, this time with a case
study of Boston, which had, since June 1974, become a public and legal battleground over busing.
Finis Welch and Audrey Light published a
study in 1987 that used 16 years
of data on enrollments and
desegregation program status to
study in detail the changes in white enrollment surrounding the implementation
of 116 major
desegregation plans between 1967 and 1985.
In addition, these
studies capture only the most direct impacts
of the
desegregation program and are limited to a few interventions that may not be typical.
Jonathan Guryan in 2002 used the
desegregation plan data assembled by Welch and Light to
study the change in high - school dropout rates between 1970 and 1980, and found that the implementation
of desegregation during the 1970s reduced the high - school dropout rate during that period.
Several
studies have examined the average effect
of either the introduction or the removal
of desegregation programs using variation in timing across districts.
CHICAGO —
Desegregation plans that provide for the busing
of students between central - city and suburban schools are more effective in producing lasting integration than more limited types
of plans, a new
study released here concludes.
The case
studies of economic
desegregation in the book's last chapter are dominated by a city in my state, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
This
study explores the changing nature
of enrollment in U.S. schools, the changes in patterns
of segregation and
desegregation of various groups, regions and community types.
She has
studied the causes and consequences
of school
desegregation, intergovernmental grants, school district consolidation, and the current and historical federal role in elementary and secondary education.
A national school -
desegregation study by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is «so flawed that it can not be carried out in a way that will either be seen as professionally respectable or fair,» an advisor to the commission wrote last week in a letter
of resignation.
The film looks at case
studies in present day Little Rock, New York, and Los Angeles through a critical, historical lens, applying lessons learned during the period
of desegregation after Brown v. Board and the experiences
of the Little Rock Nine to the current state
of education.
Overview
of Lesson Plan: In this two - day lesson plan, students examine the struggle for
desegregation during the Civil Rights Movement and a current
study that finds that American schools are reverting to segregation.
Long - term
studies of black adults who as children were subject to court - ordered
desegregation programs, have found significant gains from attending integrated schools, including higher earnings and better health.
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.
I certainly applaud the
desegregation that occurred during the years immediately following the passage
of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and I quite explicitly say, on p. 75, that «careful
studies show that school
desegregation has had positive impacts on student learning, especially in the South,» a passage which must have escaped Kahlenberg's attention when he claims I «neglect» to point out a possible connection between
desegregation and southern gains.
The
study, which one
of the researchers provided to Education Week, also indicates that some grants under the federal magnet - schools program are going to districts that have no realistic chance
of furthering the program's primary goal
of promoting racial
desegregation.
In an examination
of desegregation plans around the country, two
of the
study's authors — David J. Armor, a senior fellow at the Institute
of Public Policy at George Mason University in Virginia,...
During his final year in college, Mr. Magoon wrote an «Independent
Study Thesis»
of fictional short stories inspired by the
desegregation of the Boston Public Schools in the 1970's.
Authors: Dr. Ann E. Blankenship & Dr. Leslie LockeThis case
study outlines the struggle for
desegregation and the adoption
of culturally responsive curricula in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) as it attempted to balance state politics and federal court oversight.
A review
of studies evaluating court - ordered
desegregation concluded that «the circumstantial case linking school segregation to the test score gap is compelling» (Vigdor & Ludwig, 2008, p. 208).
A case
study of school
desegregation in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
She is the author
of The Children In Room E4: American Education on Trial, which chronicles a landmark civil rights case and life in a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview
study of the adult lives
of African Americans who had participated in a voluntary school
desegregation effort in suburban Boston.