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Understanding the Housing-School Relationship: Achieving Integration in Racially Changing Cities and Suburbs. Equity by Design
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Diem, Sarah; Walters, Sarah W. – Equity Assistance Center Region III, Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center, 2019
The purpose of this "Equity by Design" brief is to provide information to parents, community members, and school district leaders and teachers about the relationship between housing policy and school policy. Specifically, this brief provides a succinct history of U.S. housing policy, discusses some current educational policies that…
Descriptors: Housing, Public Policy, School Policy, United States History
The Public Schools and the Challenge of the Supreme Court's Integration Decision
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Wells, Amy Stuart; Frankenberg, Erica – Phi Delta Kappan, 2007
This past June, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court declared integration plans in Louisville and Seattle unconstitutional because of their focus on race as one factor in assigning students to schools. The Court's ruling in the "Parents Involved in Community Schools" v. "Seattle School District No. 1" and…
Descriptors: Race, Neighborhood Schools, Community Schools, Voluntary Desegregation
Education under the Security State: Defending Public Schools
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Gabbard, David A., Ed.; Ross, E. Wayne, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2008
This highly acclaimed volume in the "Defending Public Schools" series is now available in paperback from Teachers College Press. It is a practical, necessary addition to the work of administrators, teachers, policymakers, and parents as they negotiate the difficult path of how to best teach and educate today's children and youth. This…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Privatization, Federal Legislation