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The Legacy of Busing and "Brown": How School Desegregation Experiences Shape Public Perceptions and Communities' School Diversity Priorities in the Resegregation Era
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Honey, Ngaire; Smrekar, Claire – Urban Education, 2022
In a context that privileges neighborhood zoning and school choice over within-district busing, we examine urban residents' perceptions of the benefits of racial diversity. We analyze public opinion trends by race and residents' experience as a student in a district under court-ordered desegregation--Nashville, TN. We find racial differences…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Resegregation, Public Opinion, Urban Areas
Scholars as Policy Actors: Research, Public Discourse, and the Zone of Judicial Constraints
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Welner, Kevin G. – American Educational Research Journal, 2012
Courts, students are told, will protect minorities' legal rights against popular sentiment and political pressure. But courts can be expected to protect rights only within boundaries shaped in part by popular and political opinion. This suggests that litigation outcomes regarding education rights issues will depend on shifting the policymaking…
Descriptors: Political Science, Courts, Court Litigation, Decision Making
The Declining Significance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Relevance, Reputation, and Reality in Obamamerica
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Brown, M. Christopher, II – Journal of Negro Education, 2013
Historically Black colleges and universities are a unique institutional cohort in American higher education. These colleges have been celebrated for their achievements and critiqued for their composition at differing points during their collective history. This article addresses contemporary ebbs and flows of their relevance and reputation in the…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Change, Institutional Mission
Ethics and Advocacy: Paul Wilson's Defense of Kansas in Brown v. The Board of Education.
Prentice, Diana B. – 1983
The appellate argument of Paul Wilson, who represented the Topeka, Kansas, school board in the 1952 Supreme Court case, "Brown v. Board of Education," presents an excellent example of the influence of personal and legal ethics on rhetorical choices. A reluctant advocate of racially segregated education, a policy the Topeka Board of…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Discriminatory Legislation, Ethics, Lawyers
Public Opinion and School Desegregation.
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Orfield, Gary – Teachers College Record, 1995
Summarizes public opinion regarding school desegregation, busing, and racial integration. Public opinion surveys reveal a reality of public opinion on desegregation that is far more complex and more positive than might be assumed. The public appears to believe that school integration is valuable, but there is strong resistance, particularly among…
Descriptors: Black Students, Busing, Civil Rights Legislation, Educational Discrimination
The Premise of Black Inferiority: An Enduring Obstacle Fifty Years Post-"Brown"
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O'Connor, Carla – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
Gloria Ladson-Billings explains in her chapter that, in part, the promise of "Brown v. Board of Education" has not been realized because it was premised on black inferiority. She elaborates that "instead of addressing the underlying pathology of the defendant--White supremacy"--the evidence, case, and accordant ruling…
Descriptors: African American Achievement, Pathology, Discourse Analysis, Racial Bias
Desegregation of Higher Education: A Look at Political and Legal Issues Prior to "Brown v. Board of Education."
Webb, Melvin W. – 1980
The political and legal forces that shaped opinion and government action prior to the Supreme Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954) are examined, along with constitutional interpretations concerning education and desegregation, federal and state statutes related to desegregation, and cases since Roberts v. City of Boston…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, College Admission, College Desegregation