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Ashford-Hanserd, Shetay; Springer, Stephen B.; Hayton, Mary-Patricia; Williams, Kelly E. – Journal of Negro Education, 2020
From 1896 to 1954, the "separate but equal" doctrine instituted by the landmark "Plessy v. Ferguson" case reverberated in public education in the United States until its rejection in the 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" Supreme Court decision. In this integrative literature review, the authors sought to…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, Equal Education
Reardon, Sean F. – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2015
Although it is clear that racial segregation is linked to academic achievement gaps, the mechanisms underlying this link have been debated since Coleman published his eponymous 1966 report. In this paper, I examine 16 distinct measures of segregation to determine which is most strongly associated with academic achievement gaps. I find very clear…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Racial Segregation, Racial Differences, Achievement Gap
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Sharma, Andy; Joyner, Ann Moss; Osment, Ashley – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014
This study examines the impact of racial isolation on high school student performance in North Carolina, a state in the southeast United States. Our research goal is to investigate if increased isolation negatively impacts Black students' academic performance. Employing the North Carolina State Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) dataset, we…
Descriptors: High School Students, African American Students, Racial Composition, Racial Factors
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Green, Preston C., III. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2013
Since the separate-but-equal era, students attending schools with high concentrations of Black students have attempted to improve the quality of their educations through school finance litigation. Because of the negative effects of racial isolation, Black students might consider mounting school finance litigation to force states to explicitly…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Court Litigation, African American Students