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Sharon Irish – Schools: Studies in Education, 2024
Upward Bound (UB), created in 1965 to provide educational enrichment for low-income youths, had to be racially integrated. In 1966, I was among three White northern teens sent to integrate UB at Xavier University in New Orleans. My family had lived in North Carolina in the early 1960s, participating in civil rights actions, so I had had some…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, High School Students, Disadvantaged Youth, College Preparation
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Theresia Joakim Kanyopa; Dipane Joseph Hlalele; Matseliso Mokhele-Makgalwa – South African Journal of Education, 2024
The purpose of the study reported on here was to explore the implementation of learner integration and its challenges in a selected former Model C school. This is an expansion of the findings of a larger study, "Understanding and enhancing of learner integration in a selected ex-model C school" by Theresia Joakim Kanyopa. Based on South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Desegregation, High School Students, Grade 11
Joshua Angrist; Guthrie Gray-Lobe; Clémence Idoux; Parag A. Pathak – Blueprint Labs, 2024
School assignment in Boston and New York City came to national attention in the 1970s as courts across the country tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home. Although 1970s desegregation efforts likely benefited minority students, urban school transportation is increasingly…
Descriptors: Busing, School Desegregation, Racial Factors, White Students