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Richards, Meredith P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
"Gerrymandering" is known best as a tool to manipulate boundaries for voting districts, but school districts have long used the same tool to manipulate school boundaries. The author used geospatial techniques--mapping various kinds of demographic data onto school boundaries--to examine public school attendance zones and their effect on…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Racial Segregation, School Districts, Geographic Location
Schmidt, Peter – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Critics of affirmative action announced last week efforts to get bans on racial and ethnic preferences on the ballots in four states--Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, and Oklahoma--as part of a plan to thrust the issue into the national spotlight in the November 2008 elections. Ward Connerly, the prominent anti-affirmative-action activist who played a…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Activism, Public Colleges, College Admission