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Palencia, Virginia; Shakeshaft, Charol – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
In response to the national problem of overrepresentation of Hispanic students in general education classes, this study addressed Hispanic access and enrollment in Advanced Placement (AP) coursework in Virginia, a growing destination state for many Hispanic families and students. Through a secondary data analysis of the Civil Rights Data…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Hispanic American Students, Access to Education, Enrollment
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Turner, 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
Blumstein, James F. – 1981
The application of constitutional principles of desegregation, derived from the context of primary and secondary education, to the postsecondary education setting, is addressed in the second of eight reports from the Postsecondary Desegregation Project at Vanderbilt University. The role of the U.S. Department of Education in enforcing the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Colleges, College Desegregation, Compliance (Legal)