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Direct linkTillerson-Brown, Amy – Journal of School Choice, 2016
In light of contemporary school choice proposals and the 60th anniversary of the Southern Manifesto, the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools crisis provides interesting historical discussion. Prince Edward County (PEC), a rural community in central Virginia, was one of five school districts represented in the 1954 "Brown v. Board of…
Descriptors: Equal Education, School Choice, Educational Vouchers, Public Schools
Download full textFrankenberg, Erica – George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education, 2010
The nation and its public school enrollment are in the midst of dramatic racial change (Frey, 2001; Orfield, 2009). Soon, the nation's public schools will enroll a majority of non-White students, a demographic reality that has already occurred in the two largest regions of the country, the South and the West. As the nation's enrollment grows more…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Public Schools, School Districts, Racial Segregation
Ikpa, Vivian W.; McGuire, C. Kent – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2009
The interplay between sociopolitical forces and economic agendas becomes apparent when one examines the June 28, 2007 United States Supreme Court Decision, Parents Involved In Community Schools v. Seattle School District . In a reversal of the 1954 Brown Decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled that public schools could not use race as a…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, African American Students, Urban Schools, Race
Terjen, Kitty – New South, 1973
The past and present situation of the segregation academy movement in Prince Edward County, Virginia, is discussed. (NQ)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Financial Support, Public Schools, Racial Segregation
Peer reviewedTurner, Kara Miles – Journal of Negro Education, 2003
Describes the historical efforts of economically, politically, and socially oppressed black communities across the segregated U.S. south to give their children a quality education, highlighting rural Prince Edward County, Virginia. In an attempt to circumvent Brown v. Board of Education (1954), white leaders closed every public school in the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Civil Rights, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2004
In this article, the author discusses the 50th Anniversary Commission of the "Brown v. Board of Education" that draws both praise and criticism from nationally prominent figures in education, civil rights, and government--including its own commissioners. As the federal commission commemorates the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Public Schools, Civil Rights, Court Litigation
US Commission on Civil Rights, 2006
On July 28, 2006, a panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the putative benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary education. Four experts presented written statements to the Commissioners that assessed the social science literature on this issue. They also addressed whether or not…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Civil Rights, School Desegregation, Secondary Education
