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Direct linkBryk, Anthony S.; Greenberg, Sharon; Bertani, Albert; Sebring, Penny; Tozer, Steven E.; Knowles, Timothy – Harvard Education Press, 2023
"How a City Learned to Improve Its Schools" tells the story of the extraordinary thirty-year school reform effort that changed the landscape of public education in Chicago. Acclaimed educational researcher Anthony S. Bryk joins five coauthors directly involved in Chicago's education reform efforts, Sharon Greenberg, Albert Bertani, Penny…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Download full textTegeler, Philip; Herskind, Micah – Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 2018
School and neighborhood segregation are recognized as pernicious and persistent problems across the United States, originally developed through intentional government policies, and perpetuated today by both public policy and private markets that have adapted to segregated systems of housing, education, and transportation. Housing and school…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, School Segregation, Housing, Social Influences
Peer reviewedJankov, Pavlyn; Caref, Carol – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
During the period of 1981 to 2015, the total population of Black students in CPS plummeted from close to 240,000, 60% of all CPS students, to 156,000 or 39% of CPS. This paper documents how despite their decreasing numbers and percentage in the system, the vast majority of Black students remained isolated in predominantly low-income Black schools…
Descriptors: School Segregation, Equal Education, Public Schools, Urban Schools
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1965
The document consists of the testimony given at Congressional hearings in 1965. Included are statements by educators, labor leaders, and representatives of various organizations relevant to the status of defacto segregation in the Chicago public schools. (NH)
Descriptors: De Facto Segregation, Federal Government, Northern Schools, Public Schools
Homel, Michael W. – 1984
The creation of a separate and unequal system of education for blacks and whites in Chicago in the 1920s and 1930s, and black responses to the situation are described and analyzed in this book. Drawing upon material from black newspapers and journals, Chicago Board of Education documents, census data, private manuscript collections, and personal…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Community, Black Education, Black Organizations
Chicago Urban League, IL. Dept. of Research. – 1979
This paper constitutes the Chicago Urban League's criticism of "Access to Excellence," the voluntary school desegregation plan proposed by the Chicago Board of Education. It is held that the plan will probably do more harm than good toward the desegregation of Chicago Public Schools. The Urban League claims that "Access to…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Community Attitudes, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Crain, Robert L. – 1984
The public controversy surrounding recent government proposals for supporting private schools through tuition tax credits has prompted an interest in studying the impact of private schooling on racial segregation in education. This report examines the degree of black-white segregation in the Catholic schools in the Chicago and Cleveland…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Catholic Schools, Classroom Desegregation
