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An Unlikely Alliance: Re-Examining the Architecture of Affirmative Action
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Graves, Karen – American Educational History Journal, 2014
The "Bakke" decision marked a turning point in higher education. Tested again most recently in "Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin," affirmative action policy remains in place even as the Roberts Court shakes its foundation by demanding a degree of administrative oversight not pursued by previous Courts. In spite of…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Affirmative Action, Higher Education, Disproportionate Representation
Civil Rights Enforcement Gone Haywire: The Federal Government's New School-Discipline Policy
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Epstein, Richard A. – Education Next, 2014
In January, 2014, the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office for Civil Rights in the Department of Education (ED) issued a joint "Dear Colleague Letter" to K-12 schools. The topic discussed in their joint letter is whether administrators are punishing minority children more harshly than white children for…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Punishment, Minority Group Students, Racial Bias
Assessing the Role of the Courts in Addressing the Educational Problems Caused by Racial Isolation in School Finance Litigation
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Green, Preston C., III. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
Since the separate-but-equal era, students attending schools with high concentrations of Black students have attempted to improve the quality of their educations through school finance litigation. Because of the negative effects of racial isolation, Black students might consider mounting school finance litigation to force states to explicitly…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Court Litigation, African American Students