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Ginsberg, Margery B. – Educational Leadership, 2007
Immigration is having a tremendous impact on U.S. schools, even in places like Dodge City, Kansas, where nearly a third of public school students are from new immigrant families. Ginsberg suggests that through engaging in visits to the homes of recent immigrants, the school community learns of the strengths, expertise, and "funds of…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Immigrants, Immigration, Public Schools
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Patterson, Jean A.; Niles, Rae; Carlson, Cameron; Kelley, William L. – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2008
This article examines the legacy of segregation and desegregation in the town of Parsons, Kansas. We argue that school desegregation, the goal of which was to increase access and equalize educational opportunities for African Americans, did not have that desired affect. Fifty years after the closing of the all-Black Douglass School, Parsons'…
Descriptors: African American Students, Municipalities, African American Community, Middle Class