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Frankenberg, Erica; Ee, Jongyeon; Ayscue, Jennifer B.; Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2019
The publication of this report marks the 65th anniversary of "Brown v. Board of Education," the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. In the immediate years after the "Brown" ruling, the effort to integrate schools faced many difficult challenges and progress was…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, School Segregation, Civil Rights
Gandara, Patricia; Alvarado, Elizabeth; Driscoll, Anne; Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2012
It has been well established that the high schools students attend contribute significantly to how well they do in college, and even if they choose to attend college at all (Lee & Frank, 1990). Low performing high schools tend to under-prepare their students for post-secondary education and contribute to the very high percentages of students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Minority Group Students, College Freshmen, College Transfer Students
Gandara, Patricia; Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2010
This paper reviews the research on the impact of segregation on Latino and English Language Learner (ELL) students, including new empirical research conducted in Arizona. It also reviews court decisions regarding students' rights to be integrated with their mainstream peers, and provides data on the increasing segregation of Arizona's Latino and…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Student Rights, English (Second Language), Court Litigation