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Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2015
This report analyzes the data on changes in patterns of racial segregation and their education consequences over a quarter century, from l987 to 2012. It examines a major transition in the racial and ethnic composition of Connecticut and the changes in integration and segregation in the schools of the state and its urban communities and it…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Racial Integration, School Desegregation, Educational History
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2007
The purpose of this report is to examine what effect the increase in the number of schools obtaining unitary status has had on the racial balance of schools that were previously under court order. Specifically, the report examines whether levels of integration tend to erode as consent decrees are lifted. To that end, the Commission collected data…
Descriptors: Public Schools, School Desegregation, Racial Composition, School Districts
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Fine, Michelle; Bloom, Janice; Burns, April; Chajet, Lori; Guishard, Monique; Payne, Yasser; Perkins-Munn, Tiffany; Torre, Maria Elena – Teachers College Record, 2005
This article reports on the extensive qualitative and quantitative findings of a multi-method participatory study designed to assess urban and suburban youths' experiences of racial class justice or injustice in their schools and throughout the nation. Constructed as a letter to Zora Neale Hurston, who was immediately critical of the Brown…
Descriptors: African American Students, Racial Discrimination, Social Bias, Public Education