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Diem, Sarah; Smotherson, Brittany – Equity Assistance Center Region III, Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center, 2022
This "Equity by Design" research brief discusses the impact of COVID-19 on school segregation and integration in public schools. COVID-19 raised a lot of discussions already occurring around school choice, which connects to a larger conversation on the purpose of education and it being one of the most important public goods in American…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Equal Education, Racial Integration
Diem, Sarah – Equity Assistance Center Region III, Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center, 2021
It has been over 12 years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in "Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1" (2007), which forced school districts to begin thinking of new ways to integrate their schools without relying on race as the sole factor in their assignment plans. While some school…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, Desegregation Plans, Racial Integration
Diem, Sarah – Equity Assistance Center Region III, Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center, 2019
According to a report by the UCLA Civil Rights Project (2017), New Jersey is the sixth most segregated state for Black students and the seventh most for Latino students. Black and Latino students in New Jersey also attend schools with large percentages of low-income students. Volumes of research on school segregation show that students attending…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Definitions, Court Litigation
Diem, Sarah; Walters, Sarah W.; Good, Madeline W. – Equity Assistance Center Region III, Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center, 2022
Nearly 70 years after one of the most important U.S. Supreme Court rulings was handed down in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) declaring segregated schools unconstitutional, the promise of desegregation has remained unfulfilled. However, there are still actions that can be taken to address the extant disparities in schools that exist in large…
Descriptors: School Districts, Faculty Development, Minority Group Students, Social Integration
Diem, Sarah; Pinto, Ransford – Equity Assistance Center Region III, Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center, 2017
The purpose of this Equity Brief is to examine the ongoing need for Local Education Agencies to work in conjunction with community stakeholders to develop comprehensive strategies to increase racial and socioeconomic diversity in schools. Research indicates that all students benefit from learning within racially and socioeconomically diverse…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Background, Public Schools, Racial Integration, Social Integration
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Diem, Sarah – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2015
As US schools return to the levels of segregation that existed when many initial desegregation orders were established and concentrations of poverty are escalating, the judicial tools in place to achieve integrated schools have shifted. In its most recent ruling on school desegregation, "Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Racial Integration, Program Implementation, Urban Schools