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Mitchell, Douglas E.; Batie, Michael; Mitchell, Ross E. – Urban Education, 2010
This article examines a half century of housing and school segregation data in two large California school districts. Based on a review of both the methods and the substantive data available tracking the relationship between school and housing integration, the study reported here shows that very substantial school-level integration in these two…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Housing, Urban Areas
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Karlsson, Jenni – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2010
Although some gender activists and analysts question the efficacy of gender mainstreaming to take forward women's demands, the South African government has pursued the strategy within a number of government departments including the Department of Education. This article explores how the strategy is being implemented in one provincial education…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Politics of Education, Foreign Policy, Educational Policy
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