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Direct linkRichards, Meredith P. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2017
"Gerrymandering" is known best as a tool to manipulate boundaries for voting districts, but school districts have long used the same tool to manipulate school boundaries. The author used geospatial techniques--mapping various kinds of demographic data onto school boundaries--to examine public school attendance zones and their effect on…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Racial Segregation, School Districts, Geographic Location
Zwick, Rebecca – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Eliminating the Scholastic Aptitude Test for college admissions might seem a form of covert affirmative action. Although it is possible to design a workable admissions policy that excludes standardized tests (as 15 percent of colleges have done), banishing admissions tests to further a social-policy goal indirectly is unsound policy. (Contains 25…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Admission, College Entrance Examinations, High Schools
Houston, Paul – Phi Delta Kappan, 1996
Selfishness has spawned a new breed of racism, driven by fear, fed by scarcity, and manifested through economic imperatives. California's Proposition 187 and Herrnstein and Murray's book "The Bell Curve" are built on racist foundations. Our current obsession with race is driven by an economy and an elitist social system that is…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, American Dream, Competition, Democracy
