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James Clifton; Eric Duncan – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2025
This article presents key insights about diversifying the educator workforce as interpreted by Eric Duncan of the Education Trust. Duncan discusses five key themes: (1) the importance of a diverse educator workforce, (2) opportunities for and impediments to improvement, (3) Ohio's efforts, (4) collaboration and mentorship, and (5) sustainability.…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), Minority Group Teachers, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation
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Hughley, Kiena S.; Larwin, Karen H. – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2021
African American male students are disproportionately represented in special education. The purpose of the current study is to examine the disproportionality of African American male students who are referred to special education programs and are identified special education services, specifically in the areas of Emotional Disturbance (ED),…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Special Education, Disproportionate Representation
Kimmel, Lois; Lachlan, Lisa; Guiden, Andrea – Region 8 Comprehensive Center, 2021
An effective teacher workforce is a diverse teacher workforce. As of 2017, only 5% of Ohio's teachers identify as teachers of color. As more teachers from diverse backgrounds enter the teaching profession in Ohio, they will encounter mentors who do not look like them and may not understand some of their struggles. The purpose of this guide is to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Effectiveness, Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Characteristics
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Brown, Frank – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2008
Public education in America continues to be viewed as being worthy of major investments to improve the county's economic position in the world. But quality education for many Americans is still not within their reach. Fifty years after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" eliminating legal segregation of…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Impact, Global Approach, School Desegregation
Belenker, Jerry – 1965
Reported are the major legal cases (up to 1965 and in various parts of the country) pertaining to defacto school segregation. The document reviews the cases under the rubrics of dejure segregation, gerrymandering of attendance zones, the question of obligation to integrate, the discretionary authority of school boards, teacher assignment, and…
Descriptors: De Jure Segregation, Desegregation Litigation, Federal Legislation, Public Schools
Saltman, Juliet – 1980
This paper describes a school desegregation case, begun in 1978, in which housing segregation was a principal issue. The history of both residential and school segregation in Akron, Ohio, are outlined. It is held that public housing and credit policy greatly contributed to the maintenance of segregated neighborhoods in all United States…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Housing Discrimination, Public Policy
Ohio State Dept. of Education, Columbus. Div. of Equal Educational Opportunities. – 1983
Two reports describing Ohio's efforts in the last 15 years to desegregate the public schools and provide quality education for all are presented in this document. In the first report, Ohio's increasing involvement in desegregation is traced and practices that have effectively reduced racial isolation or eliminated segregation in Ohio's schools are…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Progress: A Report of Desegregation Trends in the States, 1979
This report on desegregation includes an article by Senator M. Morris Jackson concerning desegregation in Ohio, and several brief reports on desegregation trends in California, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington. Senator Jackson's article discusses the findings of Ohio's Joint Select Committee on School Desegregation, a bipartisan…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Walter, Franklin B.; And Others – 1980
This handbook is intended to assist Ohio school district officials in taking all necessary and reasonable means to alleviate racial imbalances which may be present among pupils or staff. First, court rulings on segregation since 1954 are analyzed. Aspects particularly related to school district policy are highlighted. School district actions…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Desegregation Litigation, Educational Assessment, Educational Policy
MEIER, AUGUST; RUDWICK, ELLIOTT – 1967
THIS ARTICLE PRESENTS A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF NEGRO SCHOOL BOYCOTTS FROM 1897 TO 1925 IN ALTON, ILL., EAST ORANGE, N.J., AND SPRINGFIELD AND DAYTON, OHIO, WHERE ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO INTRODUCE RACIALLY SEPARATE SCHOOLS. THE REVIEW DESCRIBES THE PROTEST MOVEMENT AND THE VICISSITUDES OF THE INTEGRATION ATTEMPTS IN EACH CITY. ALL THE NEGRO PROTEST…
Descriptors: Black Leadership, Blacks, Board of Education Role, Community Action
Ohio State Legislative Office of Education Oversight, Columbus. – 1994
The Education Mobility Assistance Program (EMAP) was created in Ohio in 1979 to provide funds to school districts that volunteered to racially desegregate their schools by transferring students. This report evaluates the impact of EMAP funds in reducing the number of racially isolated schools and in providing equal educational opportunities for…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Plans
Lucas, Robert E. – Mini Journal, 1976
Despite the problems and issues that arise from the merger (such as racial prejudice, polarization of blacks and whites, frustration, isolation, busing, and the maintenance of discipline), the merger results in a better school system, a stronger faculty and adminstration, and more dedicated and better informed citizenry. Several important goals…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Centralization, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Camp, William E., Ed.; Connelly, Mary Jane, Ed.; Lane, Kenneth E., Ed.; Mead, Julie F., Ed. – 2000
This handbook for elementary and secondary school principals contains several chapters on topics important to building level administrators. Each chapter summarizes relevant state and federal court decisions and statutes, concluding with recommendations for practice. The handbook is divided into four sections: students and the law, special…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Child Abuse, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation