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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
Woods, Philip A., Ed.; Woods, Glenys J., Ed. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
This is a unique collection of leading examples of education grounded in alternative philosophies and cultures--from initiatives to create more democratic schools, through Quaker, Buddhist, Islamic, Montessori and Steiner/Waldorf schools, to Maori and First Nations education in Canada and Palestinian Jewish schools in Israel. Aimed at educational…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Rural Schools, Nontraditional Education, Jews