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Direct linkDavis, Theodore J., Jr. – Education and Urban Society, 2017
Delaware has long played a pivotal role in the nation's struggle to end school segregation and promote educational equality. This article discusses racial disparities in educational achievement and outcomes by examining the state's political history and the politics of race in public education. This article explores educational disparities from a…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Race, Politics of Education, Educationally Disadvantaged
Download full textNiemeyer, 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
Glenn, William J. – Urban Education, 2011
This study analyzes the increase in school segregation in Delaware from a quantitative perspective. The article tests the hypothesis that the declaration of unitary status that released the Wilmington area school districts from their desegregation order caused the increase in segregation. The research reveals that the declaration of unitary status…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Statistical Analysis, School Resegregation
Peer reviewedRaffel, Jeffrey A. – Integrated Education, 1976
Analyzes the trials and tribulations of a key group in the Delaware desegregation process, set up by a governor's executive order to help prepare the seats for a peaceful transition to desegregated schools. (Author)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Educational Change
Peer reviewedRaffel, Jeffrey A. – Urban Education, 1977
Examines pre-integration conditions in a metropolitan, multiple district school desegregation situation. This case study presents background information, analyzes the politics of desegregation and bussing independent of metropolitan and interdistrict considerations, analyzes the interdistrict and metropolitan aspects of the case, and, analyzes…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Peer reviewedLandman, James H. – Social Education, 2004
On May 17, 2004, the United States will observe the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. By invalidating the doctrine of "separate but equal" in the field of public education, a doctrine that had been approved by the same court nearly sixty years earlier in Plessy…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, United States History, Desegregation Litigation, School Segregation
Lewis, Horacio D., Ed. – 1988
This monograph comprises 10 articles grouped under a single title on the following aspects of school desegregation in Delaware: (1) the true meaning of desegregation in the light of current concerns; (2) the effect on Hispanic and other students; and (3) its personal impact. The following school and community representatives contributed to the…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Willie, Charles V., Ed.; Greenblath, Susan L., Ed. – 1981
This book contains reports on ten school districts' responses to court ordered desegregation. The book begins with an historical background and a discussion of racial politics and community conflict. Following the introduction are the ten case studies, whose titles reveal the city and issues under examination: (1) "Boston, Massachusetts:…
Descriptors: Black Students, Busing, Case Studies, Community Attitudes
Kirk, George V. – 1976
It is easy to forget the continuous, slow, often difficult path that the May 17, 1954 Brown decision of the Supreme Court has taken and the many small--and often forgotten--problems that have been faced in the past 22 years. Delaware had some warning in 1952 that desegregation might occur and what it might involve. Most school districts received…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Case Studies, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
