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Rabbideau, David E. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this critical autoethnographic study was to explore, (a) the role that race played in shaping my responses to demographic changes in the public school district that I served, (b) how I could use this new understanding to improve my practice as an educational leader, and (c) how my research and experience could serve as a model for…
Descriptors: Leaders, Education, Whites, Advantaged
Majee, Upenyu S. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation recognizes that the emergence of post-apartheid South Africa as the most popular study destination in Africa follows racial segregation, regional destabilization, and international isolation during apartheid. Today, the country's public higher education institutions face intensifying pressures to respond simultaneously to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Social Change, Racial Segregation, Foreign Countries
Roberson, Deborah C. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Traditional research often excludes the voices of marginalized populations such as African Americans, who are usually written about instead of being allowed to tell their own stories (King, 2005). This research gives African Americans the opportunity to "tell their stories" of segregation and integration. Leaving the telling of our…
Descriptors: African Americans, Personal Narratives, Racial Segregation, Racial Integration
Moore, Sandra – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The Commonwealth of Kentucky was identified in the Adams v Richardson case as one of the nineteen states that were cited for providing separate but equal education for black and white students in higher education. The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) required the state of Kentucky to develop a voluntary desegregation plan for its state institutions to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational History, Colleges, School Desegregation
Moll, Kirk A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this research is to study the learning experiences of participants in the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) of Union Theological Seminary in New York. SIM provided the seminarians with an intense learning environment in which they crossed borders including race, gender, class, and culture. For many of these participants, this…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Oral History, African American Community, Race
Taylor, Robert Pernell – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The primary purpose of this study was to examine the differences in teacher quality, student achievement, and graduation rates among select North Carolina urban high schools based on their racial segregation when measured by the entropy index. The entropy index is a measure of evenness among racial groups used to determine the level of segregation…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Research Design, High Schools, Race