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McMillian, M. Monique; Fuller, Sarah; Hill, Zoelene; Duch, Kate; Darity, William A., Jr. – Urban Education, 2018
This study uses a North Carolina administrative data set to analyze racial segregation and student achievement in Wake County during race-based and income-based school assignment plans. We find a modest increase in the level of racial segregation in Wake schools during the income-based plan, but compared with other large districts in the state,…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, School Segregation, Student Placement, Socioeconomic Influences
Frankenberg, Erica; Hawley, Genevieve Siegel; Ee, Jongyeon; Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2017
The South was the central focus of the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. The landmark ruling held that laws mandating segregation in the school systems of the eleven states of the Old Confederacy, along with D.C. and six other states, violated the U.S. Constitution. Intense opposition met the…
Descriptors: Geographic Regions, Civil Rights, Educational History, School Desegregation
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Roseboro, Donyell L.; Thompson, Candace M. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
Neighborhood schools engender the idea that schools can be integral community centers, with learning facilitated by the personal relationships developed among teachers, administrators, students, and parents. Neighborhood schools also have represented stigmatized segregated spaces located in communities with high poverty rates, low high school…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, Middle Schools, Urban Schools, School Closing
Wagner, Chandi – Center for Public Education, 2017
In 1954, "Brown v. Board of Education" struck down state laws that required schools to be segregated by race, which then existed in 17 southern states. Yet in 2016, many schools across the country are still segregated along largely racial and socioeconomic lines. There are many reasons schools aren't better integrated. School district…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Racial Discrimination, Poverty, Academic Achievement
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Taysum, Alison – Educational Review, 2013
This paper examines ways educational leaders engaging with doctoral research have worked for students' participation in education systems. Twenty-four interviews were conducted with educational leaders of schools, colleges, and districts in England and the US doing doctoral research. The findings reveal that the leaders identify US and English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Doctoral Programs, Neoliberalism
Bailey, Stephen K. – 1968
Increasing pressure by state governments to end racial discrimination and defacto school segregation in public schools is predicted. Deeply ingrained American prejudice and Congressional racalcitrance have so far hindered progress in this area and, in fact, schools are more segregated now than they were at the time of the Brown decision. The white…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation