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Category: Desegregation
- 1/1/09 - Library of Congress,
This website is a source of information regarding the online exhibition via the Library of Congress. The story of how the court case of Brown versus the Board of Education came about, as well as the aftermath, is described here with detail and pictures. Educators and students will benefit from viewing this site. Information about this case is discussed in the Inclusive Education for Equity module. - 1/1/06 - Jane Cooley
"Understanding peer effects is critical to evaluating the impact of de facto public school segregation on the achievement of white and nonwhite students. Using a unique panel data set of North Carolina public elementary school students, I estimate a model of achievement production that incorporates heterogeneous responses by students at different points of the achievement distribution, while also allowing for peer spillovers to vary across races and for the formation of different race-based... - 1/1/09 - Erica Frankenberg, Genevieve Siegel-Hawley
"This paper describes the contours of state legislation relating to charter schools and racial diversity, as well as limited oversight activities to monitor compliance with these policies. We also highlight serious gaps in charter school enrollment data based on an on-going Civil Rights Project analysis of charter school racial, socioeconomic and linguistic segregation. We conclude with recommendations for designing charter school civil rights policy to ensure that the spread of educational... - 1/1/08 - The Schott Foundation for Public Education,
This website is a data portal that provides parents, educators, media, policymakers, elected officials—and anyone who cares about education and equity—direct access to important, alarming data on the devastating reality of education for Black males across all 50 states - 1/1/07 - Gary Orfield, Chungmei Lee
"This new report released by The Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds that for the first time in three decades, the South is in danger of losing its leadership as the nation's most integrated schools. The report examines the effects of the dual processes of racial transformation and resegregation on the educational opportunity of students, as well as the relationship between race and poverty and its implications in light of the recent Supreme Court decisions. The report concludes with... - 1/1/09 - Lisa Chavez, Erica Frankenberg
The Berkeley, California school district has successfully resisted legal restraints to end desegregation efforts and, in the process, provided a possible model for many other districts across the country which want to keep the benefits of integrated schools but must face the limits on voluntary integration plans imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court two years ago. - 1/1/06 - Douglas Harris
This report considers the educational consequences of the considerable racial segregation that remains in schools today and the potential of controlled choice to address them. It begins with an extensive review of research regarding the effects of school integration. Previous research provides relatively strong evidence that desegregation helps minority students reach higher academic achievement and better long-term outcomes such as college attendance and employment. - 1/1/08 - Dylan Conger
"This article offers new directions in measuring racial isolation in schools. The most widely-used measurement approach is to examine the mean on the distribution of school percentage nonwhite across nonwhite students (the isolation rate) or the percentage of nonwhite students in schools with large shares of nonwhites (e.g. 90 percent or more) at a single point in time. Using data on New York City public school students, I discuss the complexity that is revealed when school officials and... - 1/1/07 - Tony Samara
The student group Alexandria United Teens (a project of Tenants and Workers United), Advancement Project, and Professor Tony Roshan Samara of George Mason University wrote Obstacles to Opportunity: Alexandria, Virginia Students Speak Out. The report reveals an unsettling conclusion: Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) has effectively created a two–track school system — one for a small number of predominantly White students who are actively prepared from an early age for college and... - 1/1/08 - The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF),
Explains the effect of the Supreme Court’s 2007 decision for Latino students and outlines what school districts can legally do to promote diversity and equal educational opportunity in the public schools. - 1/1/07 - Richard D. Kahlenberg
The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to curtail significantly the ability of school districts to integrate by race has shifted attention to a new and growing alternative form of integration based on the socioeconomic status of students. In a report released on June 28, TCF Senior Fellow, Richard D. Kahlenberg examines twelve school systems and finds that when socioeconomic school integration plans are well implemented, they can boost academic achievement and also provide students with a... - 1/1/08 - The Ten Regional Title IV Equity Assistance Centers,
The nation’s 10 equity assistance centers (EACs) are committed to the successful implementation of the Response to Intervention (RTI) frame at the state and local levels. It is clear to us that the successful implementation of RTI will require an approach that is other than “business as usual.” The EACs believe that business as usual historically has led to the overrepresentation of minorities in special education, the persistence of the achievement gap, the continuance of various... - 1/1/09 - Equity Alliance at ASU,, Kathleen King
We will start by focusing on understanding the contexts and outcomes of disparities in access and achievement for students in the United States, and then move onto looking at how these contexts play out as de/segregation and equity issues in Arizona, California, and Nevada. Then we’ll move on to and talk about some efforts being made to address these disparities. Finally, we’ll provide some tools and information for schools as they examine their own policies and practices in their... - 1/1/09 - Carol C. Burris , Kevin G. Welner , Jennifer W. Bezoza
"the principal recommendation made here is that policy makers and educators follow the path supported by the research evidence: the elimination of curricular tracks that separate students by race, socio-economic status, or assumptions about their learning potential. That is, we recommend the elimination of curricular stratification." - 1/1/08 - Bhargava, A., Frankenberg, E., Le, C.Q.
This second edition of the Manual is designed to provide as much information as we now have, following the Court’s ruling, on what you—parents, students, community activists, school board members, administrators, and attorneys—can and should do to promote diversity and avoid racial isolation in your schools. The manual will help you navigate the maze of legal, political, and policy issues that surround your efforts.
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