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Sebastian Kiguel; Sarah Cashdollar; Meg Bates – Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative, Discovery Partners Institute, 2024
In this report, we perform an analysis of kindergarten readiness in Illinois and relate it to students' third grade academic achievement. We study two cohorts of Illinois kindergarteners and follow them into third grade using data provided by the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). We summarize our key findings below: (1) Disparities appear…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Test Bias, Culture Fair Tests
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Mollie T. McQuillan; Benjamin A. Lebovitz; LaShanda Harbin – Educational Policy, 2024
Since 2017, hostile anti-LGBTQ+ educational bills rapidly expanded. Using traditional and critical policy analysis across three Midwestern states, we examine (1) whether state and local policymakers (n = 60) adopted trans-inclusive protections aligned with the 2017 federal "Whitaker" ruling, (2) the spread and scope of state and local…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, LGBTQ People, Social Bias, State Government
Abbruscato, Rosa – Online Submission, 2022
To say that there is a need for social justice is to assume that there is inequitable access to resources and unequal distribution of power (Golightly et al., 2017). Resources are needed for LGBTQ+ college students to achieve higher success rates in their programs of study ("LGBTQ+" stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender,…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Minority Group Students, Social Justice, Equal Education
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Ford, Donna Y. – Gifted Child Today, 2014
Gifted education has faced numerous criticisms regarding the extensive and persistent underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic students. In the April 2013 issue of "Gifted Child Today," this author wrote about prejudice and discrimination in gifted education, and argued that in the past and now, discrimination exists in gifted education…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Disproportionate Representation, Court Litigation, Educational Discrimination
Jackson, Shawn L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study provides an historical analysis of the Chicago Public School Desegregation Consent Decree, while illustrating its relationship with the "Brown v. Board" of 1954. It provides an analysis of the mission and objectives of all three versions of the Consent Decree which include: The Original Consent Decree 1980, The Modified…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Civil Rights, School Desegregation, Civil Rights Legislation