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Segregation, Desegregation, Segregation: Charter School Options as a Return to Separate and Unequal Schools for Urban Families
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Chapman, Thandeka K. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2018
The controversial glory of the "Brown" decisions and the retraction of court-ordered reforms represent the limited gains of racial justice in education and the protection of white privilege through law and policy. The return to segregation, as propagated through the rise of racially and economically segregated charter schools, exhibits…
Descriptors: School Segregation, School Desegregation, School Resegregation, Charter Schools
Desegregation since the Coleman Report: Racial Composition of Schools and Student Learning
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Rivkin, Steven – Education Next, 2016
"Equality of Educational Opportunity," also known as the Coleman Report, sought answers to two burning questions: (1) How extensive is racial segregation within U.S. schools?; and (2) How adversely does that segregation affect educational opportunities for black students? In answering the first question, James S. Coleman and his…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Racial Composition, Racial Segregation, Desegregation Litigation
The Courts and White Flight: Is Segregation or Desegregation the Culprit?
McKinney, Joseph R. – West's Education Law Quarterly, 1996
The Supreme Court's decision in "Missouri" underscores the majority's reluctance to find a constitutional or factual connection between segregated schools and segregated neighborhoods that would allow courts to fashion broad remedial decrees. Examines the judiciary's treatment of residential segregation and racial segregation in…
Descriptors: Black Students, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, Federal Courts