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Direct linkSheehan, James J.; Shiveley, James M. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2004
Over the last 50 years, the United States Supreme Court has made several rulings that have had lasting effects on the American public educational system. But no ruling has been more influential than the "Brown v. Board of Education Topeka, Kansas," decision the Court handed down in 1954. 2004 marked the fiftieth anniversary of this…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational History, Public Education, Minority Groups
Download full textElam, Carol; Brown, Gilbert – Journal of College Admission, 2005
In the early 1960s, with the exception of students who attended Historically Black Colleges and Universities, relatively few students of color pursued a higher education in the United States. Today, however, about one in five U.S. college students is a minority (ACE and AAUP, 2000). Colleges and universities are grappling with issues related to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Race, Articulation (Education), Minority Group Students
