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Orfield, Gary – Civil Rights Project - Proyecto Derechos Civiles, 2015
This report analyzes the data on changes in patterns of racial segregation and their education consequences over a quarter century, from l987 to 2012. It examines a major transition in the racial and ethnic composition of Connecticut and the changes in integration and segregation in the schools of the state and its urban communities and it…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Racial Integration, School Desegregation, Educational History
Smrekar, Claire E., Ed.; Goldring, Ellen B., Ed. – Harvard Education Press, 2009
"From the Courtroom to the Classroom" examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States. As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a "general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation of public resources, as well as a weakening of the political forces that support…
Descriptors: Busing, Race, Public Schools, Neighborhood Schools
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Delaney, Stephen B. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 1996
In the case of Sheff v. O'Neill the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that the Hartford school system and its suburbs were unconstitutionally segregated. This article provides background, the significant findings, the court's rationale, and dissenting opinions, along with a discussion of the state's probable responses. (SLD)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Educational History
Foner, Philip S.; Pacheco, Josephine F. – 1984
This book recounts the attempts of three women to educate blacks between the 1830's and the Civil War, a period during which, even in the North and the Middle West, there was little concern for the education of blacks because they did not belong to the body politic. All three women endured persecution and hardship, but they provided antislavery…
Descriptors: Biographies, Black Colleges, Black Education, Black History