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Gary Orfield; Ryan Pfleger – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2024
"Brown v. Board of Education" held that the educational systems of seventeen states that mandated segregated schools violated the Constitutional guarantee of equal protection. The decision helped set off the civil rights revolution. However, after so many years of backlash, schools of the South are dramatically less segregated than what…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Educational Change
Reardon, Sean F. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015
Although it is clear that racial segregation is linked to academic achievement gaps, the mechanisms underlying this link have been debated since Coleman published his eponymous 1966 report. In this paper, I examine 16 distinct measures of segregation to determine which is most strongly associated with academic achievement gaps. I find very clear…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Racial Differences, Achievement Gap
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Anderson, James D. – Educational Researcher, 2015
This article examines the historical relationship between political power and the pursuit of education and social equality from the Reconstruction era to the present. The chief argument is that education equality is historically linked to and even predicated on equal political power, specifically, equal access to the franchise and instruments of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Equal Education, Political Power, Voting
Kucsera, John – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2014
The fight for equal educational opportunity in New York has followed a pattern similar to other diverse or racially transforming states. From the 1950s to 1980s, the issue of school desegregation was an important issue. Local civil rights pressure, the courts, and legislation attempted to desegregate large urban school systems through both…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Desegregation Plans, Educational History, Student Diversity
Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2015
This report analyzes the data on changes in patterns of racial segregation and their education consequences over a quarter century, from l987 to 2012. It examines a major transition in the racial and ethnic composition of Connecticut and the changes in integration and segregation in the schools of the state and its urban communities and it…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Racial Integration, School Desegregation, Educational History
Ayscue, Jennifer B.; Woodward, Brian – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2014
North Carolina has a storied history of school integration efforts spanning several decades. In response to the "Brown" decision, North Carolina's strategy of delayed integration was more subtle than the overt defiance of other Southern states. Numerous North Carolina school districts were early leaders in employing strategies to…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, School Districts, School Segregation
Niemeyer, Arielle – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2014
Delaware's history with school desegregation is complicated and contradictory. The state both advanced and impeded the goals of "Brown v. Board of Education." After implementing desegregation plans that were ineffective by design, Delaware was ultimately placed under the first metropolitan, multi-district desegregation court order in the…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Resegregation, State Legislation, Desegregation Litigation
Ayscue, Jennifer B.; Greenberg, Alyssa – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2013
Though once a leader in school integration, Massachusetts has regressed over the last two decades as its students of color have experienced intensifying school segregation. This report investigates trends in school segregation in Massachusetts by examining concentration, exposure, and evenness measures by both race and class. First, the report…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Minority Group Students, Racial Composition, Social Class
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2007
The purpose of this report is to examine what effect the increase in the number of schools obtaining unitary status has had on the racial balance of schools that were previously under court order. Specifically, the report examines whether levels of integration tend to erode as consent decrees are lifted. To that end, the Commission collected data…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Desegregation, Racial Composition, School Districts