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Clerge, Orly – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
Drawing from an ethnography, this paper evaluates the motivations of Black American and Black immigrant parents when selecting high schools for their millennial teenage children in a segregated city and suburbs of New York. Black middle class parents encounter racial exclusion in the areas of work and residence. However, more research is needed to…
Descriptors: African Americans, Middle Class, Racial Segregation, Urban Schools
Johnson, Melissa; Bashay, Molly; Bergson-Shilcock, Amanda – National Skills Coalition, 2019
The ethnic and racial diversity of the residents of the United States of America is one of the country's unique strengths; however, Black, Latinx, Pacific Islander, Native, and certain Asian American workers face wide racial inequities in educational attainment, employment, and income. Additional workforce policies are needed now to counter…
Descriptors: Ethnic Diversity, Minority Groups, Racial Bias, Equal Education
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Van Houtte, Mieke; Stevens, Peter A. J. – British Educational Research Journal, 2010
This article examines the association between school ethnic composition and immigrant students' intentions to finish high school and to move on to higher education. We used data from 1324 immigrant and 10,546 native students gathered in the school year 2004-2005 in a sample of 85 Flemish (Belgian) secondary schools. Logistic multilevel analyses…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, Academic Aspiration
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Duffy, John W. – Democracy & Education, 2008
Eminent African American historian Carter G. Woodson in his book "The Miseducation of the Negro," published a generation before the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision, concerned himself not with the racial composition of classrooms and schools, but with the curricula taught both in the schools and the larger culture. Certainly Woodson…
Descriptors: African American Students, United States History, History Instruction, Civil Rights
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Teranishi, Robert – Equity and Excellence in Education, 2004
This study is an examination of how the ethnic enclaves of Hmong and Vietnamese Americans in California exist as social structures through which patterns of relationships shape postsecondary aspirations and outcomes. Results indicate that Hmong and Vietnamese students faced a number of challenges related to language, linguistic discrimination,…
Descriptors: Residential Patterns, Racial Segregation, Immigrants, Hmong People
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Gifford, Bernard R.; Valdes, Guadalupe – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
According to Frankenberg, Lee, and Orfield, segregation for black students declined substantially after the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision, "Brown v. Board of Education," reaching its lowest point 30 years later. By comparison, Latino students have experienced "steadily rising segregation since the 1960s." Unlike…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Spanish Speaking, Language Usage, Student Rights