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Horsford, Sonya Douglass – Teachers College Record, 2016
Background/Context: In "Milliken v. Bradley" (1974), the U.S. Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional a metropolitan-wide desegregation plan in Detroit that sought to achieve racial balance in part by busing white suburban students to the city's majority black schools. In a stark departure from "Brown v. Board of Education of…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation
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Dixson, Adrienne – Teachers College Record, 2011
Background/Context: The Supreme Court's June 2007 decision on the Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 (PICS) provides an important context for school districts and educational policy makers as they consider the role of race in school assignment. The PICS decision has been described as essentially…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Race, Equal Education, Racial Segregation
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Morris, Jerome – Teachers College Record, 2008
Background/Context: Most narratives of Brown v. Board of Education primarily focus on integrated schooling as the ultimate objective in Black people's quest for quality schooling. Rather than uniformly assuming integration as Black people's ideological model, the push by Black people for quality schooling instead should be viewed within the…
Descriptors: African American Students, African American Children, Ideology, Educational Policy