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Gary Orfield; Ryan Pfleger – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2024
"Brown v. Board of Education" held that the educational systems of seventeen states that mandated segregated schools violated the Constitutional guarantee of equal protection. The decision helped set off the civil rights revolution. However, after so many years of backlash, schools of the South are dramatically less segregated than what…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, Civil Rights, Educational Change
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Heid, Camilla; Webber, Ann – 1999
This report presents the results of the Follow-up Public School Survey on Education Reform, which examined the implementation of the key provisions in the reauthorized Title I Act. The survey is one of many national assessments of Title I and was adapted from the Public School Survey on Education Reform. The instrument was administered to a…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Moon, Tonya R.; Brighton, Catherine M.; Hertberg, Holly L.; Callahan, Carolyn M.; Tomlinson, Carol A.; Esperat, Andrea M.; Miller, Erin M. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2003
In response to the numerous school reform initiatives being implemented, Sternberg proposed a theory of contextual modifiability stating that successful change in a school requires that the school be modifiable. Sternberg developed the School Characteristics Inventory (SCI), a 116-item Likert scale questionnaire, to assess schools'…
Descriptors: Institutional Characteristics, Measurement, Educational Change, Educational Innovation