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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
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Frankenberg, Erica – Education and Urban Society, 2013
Inaction to address housing segregation in metropolitan areas has resulted in persistently high levels of residential segregation. As the Supreme Court has recently limited school districts' voluntary integration efforts, this article considers the role of residential segregation in maintaining racially isolated schools, namely what is known about…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Neighborhood Integration, Residential Patterns, Metropolitan Areas
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Sloane, Martin E. – Journal of Law and Education, 1975
Suggests that the Milliken decision focused the Court's attention on the interrelationship between school segregation and residential segregation and may have laid the basis for successful legal action in the future. (Author/DW)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, De Facto Segregation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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Bell, Derrick A., Jr. – Journal of Law and Education, 1975
Suggests that the Milliken decision encourages racial segregation by allowing whites to runn to the suburbs. (DW)
Descriptors: Busing, De Facto Segregation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education