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Amato Nocera; Kyle P. Steele; John Hensley – Harvard Educational Review, 2024
In this historical examination, Amato Nocera, Kyle P. Steele, and John Hensley argue that the development of Black rural high schools in the decades leading up to the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision represented the dynamic between standardization, white supremacy, and Black self-definition that has shaped US education reform.…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Racism, African American Education, High Schools
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Kretchmar, Kerry – Educational Forum, 2023
Parents make choices about their children's education within a neoliberal, racist system. Measurable metrics are used to evaluate school quality within a competitive, market-based system, yet those indicators often do not align with parents' definitions of a good school, and they obscure the role of race. This paper examines how white, privileged…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Whites, Advantaged, Decision Making
Willink, Kate – Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered states to eliminate racial segregation in public schools with "all deliberate speed." Nonetheless, many all-white school boards in "progressive" North Carolina delayed "de jure" segregation for decades and condoned elements of "de facto" segregation that persist today.…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Public Schools, Rural Schools