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Suárez, Bianca Ayanna – Teachers College Record, 2021
Background/Context: Urban educational systems have garnered focused examination as bastions of educational inequity, particularly along race and class cleavages. These systems are often cited as inefficient bureaucratic institutions plagued by financial mismanagement and political corruption that produce dismal achievement outcomes. Contemporary…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Change, Educational Legislation, State Legislation
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Pogodzinski, Ben; Lenhoff, Sarah Winchell; Addonizio, Michael F. – Educational Review, 2018
As US public education enrolment grows increasingly diverse, school choice policies create opportunities to break the link between residential and school segregation. They also create new pathways for families to self-segregate into ever more racially isolated schools. This study explores student enrolment patterns in Metro Detroit over a ten-year…
Descriptors: Open Enrollment, Educational Policy, School Policy, School Choice
Center for Public Education, National School Boards Association, 2021
Since the first charter school law passed in Minnesota in 1991, over 40 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws allowing the publicly funded, privately managed, and semiautonomous schools of choice. Ever since the first charter school opened in Minnesota in 1992, the battle for fair funding has raged across the land. On the one hand,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Finance, Financial Support, Academic Achievement
1962
DATA FROM THE DETROIT GREAT CITIES PROJECT INDICATES AN INCREASE IN STUDENT I.Q. AND ACHIEVEMENT SCORES AND IN PARENT PARTICIPATION AND PRIVATE AGENCY INVOLVEMENT WHERE SPECIALIZED COACHING AND ENRICHMENT PROGRAMING IS TAKING PLACE. NOT KNOWN ARE THE LASTING EFFECTS OF I.Q. AND ACHIEVEMENT INCREASES AND THE DEGREE OF POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE…
Descriptors: Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Improvement, Enrichment Activities, Instructional Materials
Supreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1974
In this Supreme Court litigation, respondents brought a class action alleging that the Detroit public school system is racially segregated as a result of the official policies and actions of petitioner state and city officials and seeking implementation of a plan to eliminate the segregation and establish a unitary nonracial school system. The…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, De Jure Segregation, Desegregation Litigation
Smith, Ralph V.; And Others – 1968
An extensive survey was conducted in 1965 by a team of white and Negro interviewers in an application of ecological theory to a study of the support relationship between the community and its school system. Findings are based upon interview data from a probability sample of 931 respondents selected from the population of persons 21 years of age…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Support