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Charles T. Clotfelter; Steven W. Hemelt; Helen F. Ladd; Mavzuna Turaeva – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
The decades-long resistance to federally imposed school desegregation entered a new phase at the turn of the new century, when federal courts stopped pushing racial balance as a remedy for past segregation, adopting in its place a color-blind approach in judging local school districts' assignment plans. Using data that span 1998 to 2016 from North…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Economic Status, School Districts, Desegregation Effects
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Johnson, Odis, Jr. – Educational Forum, 2017
Schools do not receive much recognition within urban sociological research for the role they perform in shaping the demographic, structural, and social features of neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan areas. In contrast, this article links schools, and the racial avoidance that operates through educational policy, to the extreme economic…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Race, Social Justice, Metropolitan Areas
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Gooden, Mark A.; Thompson Dorsey, Dana N. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2014
Background: In 1954, the "Brown v. Board of Education" case involved four states and their school segregation laws and policies. During that period, de jure and de facto segregation were a way of life in America. Sixty years later, as most schools across the country have resegregated, the authors ask the question of whether we should be…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Housing, Advantaged, Court Litigation
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Woodrooffe, Dhruneanne D. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
Under the apartheid state, higher education was structured to maintain and reproduce the subordinate social and economic position of non-Whites. The post-apartheid higher education sector suffered from fragmentation along racial lines, a lack of sustainability, and a structural incapacity to meet the challenges of restructuring and development.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Racial Segregation, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Miller, Grant R. – Action in Teacher Education, 2010
In this article, I describe the process that five graduate students used to collect oral histories about racial desegregation in a community in southern Illinois. Using these stories, I and a project team developed a unique online learning environment that facilitates and assesses the user's abilities to engage in historical thinking as a means…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Social Justice, Oral History, Graduate Students
McAndrews, Larry – Educational Foundations, 2009
In 1982 civil rights activist Rev. Jesse Jackson criticized President Ronald Reagan's attacks on busing to coerce school desegregation for targeting "not the bus, but us." Two decades later, the United States Supreme Court ended the thirty-two-year-old Charlotte, North Carolina, plan which had launched the era of court-ordered busing…
Descriptors: Busing, Public Schools, Civil Rights, School Desegregation
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Taylor, William L. – Urban Review, 1978
If past experience is taken as a guide, desegregation in the big cities will not come easily, yet interdistrict desegregation of public education is the key to allowing minority youth to participate in the mainstream of the economy in addition to relieving the tension between the races. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Metropolitan Areas
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Garcia, George F. – Integrated Education, 1976
Persons involved in developing a viable desegregation plan will have to take into account the diversity within the Latino community and will have to be aware of the diverse political goals and residential patterns of each Spanish speaking community. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Peretti, Peter O.; Swenson, Kathy – Illinois Schools Journal, 1975
Argues that initial teachers' attitudes and sentiments toward bussing for the purpose of integration is a fruitful area for future research since these earliest directions might be assumed to be associated with a more realistic sentimental stand toward the issues involved. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Discipline Problems
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. Center for National Origin, Race and Sex Equity. – 1989
A third generation of school segregation has evolved, with the following problems: (1) renewed physical segregation; (2) limited teacher expectations for minority students; (3) culturally biased instructional methods; (4) persistence of sex stereotyping and bias; and (5) ability grouping that isolates students on the basis of race, national…
Descriptors: Classroom Desegregation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Educational Trends
Jenks, Charles E. – 1994
This research study consisted of a three-tiered investigation, examining the roles of the local, state, and federal governments in bringing about the end of the dual system of education in South Carolina from 1964 to 1974. The study's purpose was twofold: (1) to detail the events leading up to and surrounding the desegregation of a county's school…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Bailey, Stephen K. – 1979
The contributors to the panel discussion reported here are divided on whether the Brown decision was an attack on racial separation or an affirmation of parents' right to choose which schools their children attend. Nor do they agree on the role social science research has played in school desegregation litigation. Some contributors claim that the…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
California State Equal Educational Opportunities Commission, Sacramento. – 1975
This report contains information on the constitutional decision to prevent and eliminate racial and ethnic segregation in the State of California. The implications of the California Supreme Court decision on the constitutional duty of schools to eliminate segregated education are presented, along with the State Board of Education declaration of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Caughey, John; Caughey, LaRee – 1973
The contents of this case study, on the perpetuation of segregation in the American city and a participant's narrative of Los Angeles' 10-year debate and struggle, 70-day trial and court order which was promptly bottled up by appeal, are organized in 13 parts as follows: (1) "The Segregating of the Los Angeles Schools"; (2)…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Court Litigation, Decentralization, Desegregation Effects
Weinberg, Meyer – 1968
This book consists of a selection from the articles, addresses and documents that have been published in the magazine "Integrated Education," comprising fifty items appearing between April, 1963 and September, 1967. The items are arranged in six sections. Part One is devoted to the general problem of educational deprivation, and to the question of…
Descriptors: Black History, De Facto Segregation, De Jure Segregation, Desegregation Effects
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