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Download full textJennifer B. Ayscue; Victor Cadilla; Mary Kathryn Oyaga; Cassandra Rubinstein – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2024
May 17, 2024 marks the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark Supreme Court decision that ruled segregated schools were "inherently unequal." At the time, North Carolina was one of 17 states that enforced de jure segregation, that is, segregation by law. The state of North Carolina and the school districts within…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Diversity, School Segregation, School Desegregation
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Direct linkEdley, Christopher, Jr., Ed.; Koenig, Judith, Ed.; Nielsen, Natalie, Ed.; Citro, Constance, Ed. – National Academies Press, 2019
Disparities in educational attainment among population groups have characterized the United States throughout its history. Education is sometimes characterized as the "great equalizer," but to date, the country has not found ways to successfully address the adverse effects of socioeconomic circumstances, prejudice, and discrimination…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, Educational Attainment
Orfield, Gary; Frankenberg, Erica – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2014
Purpose: School administrators and policy makers live in a complex, changing policy universe in which there are many competing demands and political pressures. Rarely is there much time to think about sensitive issues of long duration that are not part of the immediate demands they face. This article is about such an issue, a question that will…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Equal Education, Public Schools, Enrollment
Anderson, James D. – Educational Researcher, 2015
This article examines the historical relationship between political power and the pursuit of education and social equality from the Reconstruction era to the present. The chief argument is that education equality is historically linked to and even predicated on equal political power, specifically, equal access to the franchise and instruments of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Equal Education, Political Power, Voting
Lhamon, Catherine E.; Rosenfelt, Philip H.; Samuels, Jocelyn – US Department of Justice, 2014
Under Federal law, State and local educational agencies (hereinafter "districts") are required to provide all children with equal access to public education at the elementary and secondary level. Thie Dear Colleague letter was written to remind school districts of the Federal obligation to provide equal educational opportunities to all…
Descriptors: Enrollment, School Districts, Children, Access to Education
Ayscue, Jennifer B. – Civil Rights Project / Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2013
Maryland, as one of 17 states that had de jure segregation, has an intense history of school segregation. Following the 1954 Brown decision, school districts across the state employed various methods to desegregate their schools, including mandatory busing in Prince George's County, magnet schools in Montgomery County, and a freedom of choice plan…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Magnet Schools
