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Allen, Delia B. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2019
There is not much debate regarding the "Brown" decision and the significance of the foundation it provided for access to equal educational opportunity and the school funding litigation movement; however, it is important to recognize that the inception of "Brown" can be traced back to a small rural town in South Carolina. Three…
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, School Desegregation, Equal Education, Educational Finance
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Baker, Bruce D. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
This article applies the education cost function methodology in order to estimate additional costs associated with black student concentration and with alternative, race-neutral measures of urban poverty. Recent research highlights the continued importance of the role of race in educational outcomes, and how the intersection of peer group effects…
Descriptors: Costs, Computation, Educational Finance, School Districts
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Gomez, Julio C. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2008
On October 4, 2007, a trial level court in New Jersey dismissed "Crawford v. Davy", a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of 60,000 schoolchildren throughout the state seeking the court's authority to leave schools that fail to educate their students. By filing suit, plaintiff schoolchildren had hoped to be transferred to an alternative…
Descriptors: Neighborhood Schools, Equal Education, Laws, Court Litigation
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Marcucci, Pamela; Johnstone, D. Bruce; Ngolovoi, Mary – Peabody Journal of Education, 2008
Three universal demands characterize higher education globally: the demand for higher quality, for increased access, and for greater equity. In East Africa, where resources are highly constrained, no nation has been able to meet these demands on the basis of public expenditures alone. Instead countries have had to increase resources from nonpublic…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Foreign Countries, Public Sector, Access to Education
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Theobald, Paul; Donato, Ruben – Peabody Journal of Education, 1990
Chronicles experiences of depression era "Okies," juxtaposes them against experiences of Mexican Americans, and illuminates the diminution of agricultural labor in an industrializing society. Schooling for those groups was legitimized by their low occupational status. When economic circumstances improved, whites escaped from migrant…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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Abdal-Haqq, Ismat – Peabody Journal of Education, 1999
Examines major critiques from the literature on the Professional Development School (PDS) equity agenda and accomplishments, referencing works from literature on PDSs, diversity, urban education, and multicultural education. The paper focuses on issues related to poor or working-class learners in PDS settings and learners from non-European racial,…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education