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Leland Ware – RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2021
"Plessy v. Ferguson" provided the foundation for a system of segregation and exclusion that adversely affected African Americans throughout the twentieth century. Segregation was perpetuated by federal policies. During the 1940s and 1950s, the federal government facilitated the construction of suburban communities with Veterans…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Federal Government, Government Role, Racial Segregation
Joshua Angrist; Guthrie Gray-Lobe; Clemence Idoux; Parag Pathak – Blueprint Labs, 2022
This is the policy brief for the discussion paper, "Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York." While choice systems offer students in segregated neighborhoods access to schools that may be more integrated and of higher quality, does busing lead to improved academic performance as measured by higher test scores…
Descriptors: Busing, School Desegregation, Racial Factors, White Students
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Rasmussen, Chris – History of Education Quarterly, 2017
New Brunswick High School, which had been racially integrated for decades, became majority-minority (and soon, all minority) in the 1970s, after years of legal wrangling led hundreds of its students to depart for a new, nearly all-white high school in the adjacent suburb of North Brunswick. White suburbanites invoked "local control" to…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Desegregation, Whites, Racial Discrimination
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Kilgore, Sally B. – Education Next, 2016
In the social sciences, public access to data is now the norm at a variety of federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation. This openness dramatically expanded the quality of research that social scientists can pursue, and it discourages unscrupulous practices such as inventing or manipulating data. It also means, essentially, that…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Educational Research, Equal Education, Sociology
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Woodward, Jennifer R. – Journal of Negro Education, 2011
This article uses critical race theory, court opinions, newspapers, and interviews to explain how the burden of busing for desegregation was placed upon Blacks in Nashville, Tennessee and why the agenda of the litigants in the Kelley v. Metropolitan Board of Education cases shifted over time. The deliberate pace of the initial desegregation…
Descriptors: Busing, School Desegregation, Critical Theory, Race
McAndrews, Larry – Educational Foundations, 2009
In 1982 civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson criticized President Ronald Reagan's attacks on busing to coerce school desegregation for targeting "not the bus, but us." Two decades later, the United States Supreme Court ended the thirty-two-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina, plan which had launched the era of court-ordered busing…
Descriptors: Busing, Public Schools, Civil Rights, School Desegregation
Kozol, Jonathan – American Education, 1980
In 1974, the federal court in Boston ordered busing and a massive effort to accelerate the pace of academic progress in the Boston schools. Included in the order was the creation of twenty-two magnet schools and an unprecedented level of parent participation with the vehicles to make it possible. (JOW)
Descriptors: Busing, Federal Legislation, Magnet Schools, Parent Participation
Summers, Alex – Phi Delta Kappan, 1979
Descriptors: Busing, Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
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Fuerst, J.S.; Pupo, Daniel – Urban Education, 1983
School desegregation efforts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, can serve as a model for other systems with similar Black and White population ratios. Milwaukee school desegregation has combined limited busing, improved conditions in all-Blacks schools, and a limit of no more than 50 percent of Black students in integrated schools. (AOS)
Descriptors: Busing, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Racial Composition
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O'Donnell, Mark D. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2000
Clarifies some myths that dominated the story of Boston's school desegregation since 1974 and the Judge involved (Judge Garrity). Myths include: Judge Garrity ruined an excellent school system; busing caused great disruption throughout Boston; busing created white flight from Boston; and Judge Garrity was a heartless adjudicator who cared little…
Descriptors: Busing, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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McAndrews, Lawrence J. – Educational Foundations, 2001
Interrogates the record of George Bush, Sr. regarding his legacy on civil rights and school desegregation, discussing school desegregation and busing, his administration's challenge to busing, change and continuity in his administration's school desegregation policies, and the emergence of Hispanic education as an issue. The paper concludes that…
Descriptors: Busing, Civil Rights, Elementary Secondary Education, Hispanic American Students
Stevens, Leonard B.; Weinberg, Meyer, Ed. – 1985
This booklet describes the process of desegregation in the Cleveland Public School System. It begins with chronological history of the case of Reed v. Rhodes and other milestones in the desegregation struggle in Cleveland. This is followed by a section describing the Constitutional violations that were cited as causing segregated schools, the…
Descriptors: Busing, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education
Humphries, Kenneth W. – American School and University, 1982
In the Plainfield (New Jersey) School District, recent changes in the community's racial composition have made possible a return to neighborhood schools with little or no change in the racial balance of the schools. The reduction of bus routes, planned for 1982-83, is expected to cut costs by $137,600. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Busing, Cost Estimates, Elementary Secondary Education, Neighborhood Schools
Barr, Robert D. – Principal, 1982
Makes a case for magnet schools, especially as part of desegregation efforts. Briefly describes magnet schools around the country and some of their problems. (JM)
Descriptors: Busing, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditures
Smith, Marjorie – American School Board Journal, 1990
A board member describes the school desegregation background and present circumstances in St. Louis, Missouri. Students are entering the seventh year of a controversial voluntary desegregation plan in which some 12,000 students are bused to predominantly White schools in the suburbs. (MLF)
Descriptors: Busing, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
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