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Shaffer, Michael B.; Dincher, Bridget – Phi Delta Kappan, 2020
Following Brown v. Board of Education, schools known as "segregation academies" that were created for the purpose of allowing White students to be educated without contact with Black students proliferated in the southern United States. While the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited such segregation, these schools remained in existence for…
Descriptors: School Choice, School Segregation, White Students, African American Students
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Jha, Nandan Kumar; Stearns, Elizabeth M. – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Post-secondary educational attainment is an increasingly important prerequisite to many valued outcomes. This paper examines the association of racially-specific high school course of study with student's postsecondary educational attainment using ELS 2002-2012 and a comprehensive measure of course intensity derived from students' patterns of…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Educational Attainment, Race, High School Students
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Martin, Jennifer L.; Sharp-Grier, Martina; Smith, Julia B. – Leadership and Research in Education, 2016
This study examines the Civil Rights Data Collection of 2014, consisting of 49,605,534 students from 95,635 public schools covering grades from Kindergarten to 12th grade. The primary focus of this study was to examine the relative distribution of different types of discipline between ethnic groups and genders. In every category, the levels…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Groups
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Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini; Ebama, Malembe S. – Journal of School Health, 2011
Background: Migration of the native populations from reservations to the urban areas has resulted in mixed ethnicities of American Indian/Alaskan Native (AIAN) children. Minority youth require special attention and services in urban schools as they disproportionately experience poverty, low educational attainment, unemployment, and single-parent…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Health Needs, Prevention, Urban American Indians