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Horsford, Sonya Douglass; Sampson, Carrie; Forletta, Felicia – Teachers College Record, 2013
Background: School desegregation and resegregation in the Mountain West remain understudied despite the substantial impact the region's growth and demographic change have had on racial balance and diversity in schools. Home to the largest school district in the Mountain West and fifth largest school district in the country, Las Vegas's…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Racial Segregation, Minority Group Students, Poverty
Fleming, Nora – Education Week, 2012
California legislators swiftly passed a budget bill last week aimed at sheltering school busing dollars from a midyear budget cut many districts and advocates said particularly hurt rural school systems, along with urban districts with desegregation plans. While the measure, which Gov. Jerry Brown was expected to sign into law, would restore $248…
Descriptors: Busing, School Buses, Rural Schools, Desegregation Plans
Oatsvall, Sarah M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Amid the current resegregation of the nation's schools this dissertation extends previous research regarding the impact, success, and failure of desegregation efforts following "Brown v. Board of Education." This study broadly examines individual opinions on school desegregation over the last forty years. Thus, the current study presents…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Resegregation, Stakeholders, Opinions
Mendoza, Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Bright Horizons, a private school located in Florida, specializes in working with students of varying exceptionalities and is founded on the principles of action research. It began as an effort to create an alternative educational opportunity for a few specific children and grew into a special education school open to the community. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Action Research, Privatization, Special Education, Private Schools
Ayscue, Jennifer B. – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2013
Maryland, as one of 17 states that had de jure segregation, has an intense history of school segregation. Following the 1954 Brown decision, school districts across the state employed various methods to desegregate their schools, including mandatory busing in Prince George's County, magnet schools in Montgomery County, and a freedom of choice plan…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Magnet Schools
McPherson, Ezella – Urban Education, 2011
For over a century after the 1896 "Plessy v. Ferguson" decision, researchers have been grappling with how to effectively implement educational reform policies to provide students with an equal education in American schools. This literature review examines previous school desegregation cases and school desegregation plans to investigate…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Desegregation Plans, Equal Education, Educational Change
Zehr, Mary Ann – Education Week, 2010
A growing number of school districts are trying to break up concentrations of poverty on their campuses by taking students' family income into consideration in school assignments. Some of the districts replaced race with socioeconomic status as a determining indicator after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2007 that using race as the primary factor…
Descriptors: Assignments, Higher Education, Race, Socioeconomic Status
Ozgelen, Sinan – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate Turkish primary students' scientific process skills under the theoretical framework of cognitive domain. The sample set consisted of 306 sixth and seventh grade students from public, private, and bussed schools. The Turkish Integrated Process Skill Test was used to measure scientific process skills, and…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Science Process Skills, Elementary School Students, Private Schools
Woodward, Jennifer R. – Journal of Negro Education, 2011
This article uses critical race theory, court opinions, newspapers, and interviews to explain how the burden of busing for desegregation was placed upon Blacks in Nashville, Tennessee and why the agenda of the litigants in the Kelley v. Metropolitan Board of Education cases shifted over time. The deliberate pace of the initial desegregation…
Descriptors: Busing, School Desegregation, Critical Theory, Race
Ispa-Landa, Simone; Conwell, Jordan – Sociology of Education, 2015
Studies of when youth classify academic achievement in racial terms have focused on the racial classification of behaviors and individuals. However, institutions--including schools--may also be racially classified. Drawing on a comparative interview study, we examine the school contexts that prompt urban black students to classify schools in…
Descriptors: African American Students, Racial Composition, Whites, Interviews
Chapman, Thandeka K.; Bhopal, Kalwant K. – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2013
Commonsense understandings of school practices have historically painted parents of color as inattentive and non-participatory actors in public school settings. Racist implementations of policy and individual actions, based on teacher ideology and deficit paradigms of race, force parents of color to take an oppositional stance in public school…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Racial Bias, Parenting Styles, Minority Groups
Suttman, Craig M. – School Business Affairs, 2009
Federal law does not require school boards to provide transportation for all students. But the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) entitles students with disabilities to transportation to and from school if the students' disabilities make it difficult for them to get to school; from, in, and around the buildings where they attend…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Disabilities, Related Services (Special Education), School Business Officials
Crates, Cheryl – School Business Affairs, 2009
The economic crisis has had--and will continue to have--a dramatic effect on tax revenue and education spending throughout the United States and beyond. Yet children still show up for school every day in need of an education. In times like these, educators and school business managers must be as committed as ever to providing it. The economic…
Descriptors: School Buses, Privatization, Taxes, Bus Transportation
Eaton, Susan – National Education Policy Center, 2012
This report misrepresents and then criticizes recommendations from the Minnesota Department of Education, a think tank and two independent study groups, each of which recently encouraged particular voluntary efforts to reduce concentrated poverty and achieve racial and socioeconomic integration in schools and housing in Minnesota. In building its…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, School Desegregation, Academic Achievement, Politics of Education
Felt, Andrew J.; Koelemay, Ryan; Richter, Alexander – Planning and Changing, 2008
This article describes a method of flexible redistricting for K-12 public school districts that allows students from the same geographical region to be bused to different schools, with the goal of meeting average class size (ACS) target ranges. Results of a case study on a geographically large school district comparing this method to a traditional…
Descriptors: Busing, Class Size, School Districts, Elementary School Students