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Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Editor; Linda Darling-Hammond, Editor – Teachers College Press, 2025
In this important volume, leading scholars take an honest look at the progress made since "Brown v. Board of Education." Critical and forward-looking chapters document the shifts over time on key aspects of education, including school segregation, achievement trends in relation to policies and practices, the diversity of the teaching…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, School Segregation
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Donato, Rubén; Hanson, Jarrod – SUNY Press, 2021
In "The Other American Dilemma," Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in their schools and communities between 1912 and 1953. Drawing from the Mexican Archives located in Mexico City and by venturing outside of the Southwest, their examinations of specific…
Descriptors: United States History, Immigrants, Mexican Americans, Hispanic Americans
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Laurencin, Cato T., Ed. – National Academies Press, 2020
Despite the changing demographics of the nation and a growing appreciation for diversity and inclusion as drivers of excellence in science, engineering, and medicine, Black Americans are severely underrepresented in these fields. Racism and bias are significant reasons for this disparity, with detrimental implications on individuals, health care…
Descriptors: Racial Discrimination, Racial Bias, African Americans, Career Choice
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
Tate, William F., IV, Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2012
"Research on Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities: Toward Civic Responsibility" focuses on research and theoretical developments related to the role of geography in education, human development, and health. William F. Tate IV, the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Neighborhoods, Suburban Schools, Educational Research