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Direct linkHemphill, Clara – Teachers College Press, 2023
In cities across the United States, affluent White newcomers are moving into historically Black neighborhoods, presenting both a challenge and an opportunity for public schools. In many cases, the newcomers either avoid their local schools or use their political power to push aside families who have lived in the neighborhood for years. But there's…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Community Schools, Public Schools, Urban Schools
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
Wilson, Anna Victoria; Segall, William E. – 2001
Stories of school desegregation are ultimately about people--teachers who work in the schools and the students who are there to learn. This book focuses on the front line teachers and their recollections of the effort to desegregate faculty in the Austin (TX) Independent School District during 1964-1971 in compliance with the "Brown v. Board…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Blacks, Educational History, Interviews
Radin, Beryl A. – 1977
In this work implementation of federal school desegregation policy is analyzed for the first four years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Government officials are mentioned by name as their attitudes and actions are described. Ways are examined in which administrators perceived their political and organizational environment. Based on these…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Agency Cooperation, Bureaucracy, Civil Rights Legislation
Watras, Joseph – 1997
The political controversies surrounding the racial desegregation of public and private schools are explored using the example of Dayton (Ohio) and its 40-year effort to overcome segregation. The book examines ways business leaders, clergy, elected officials, judges, teachers, and school administrators reacted to challenges to patterns of student…
Descriptors: Conflict, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation
Nelson, Adam R. – University of Chicago Press, 2005
In recent years, federal mandates in education have become the subject of increasing debate. Adam R. Nelson's "The Elusive Ideal"--a postwar history of federal involvement in the Boston public schools--provides lessons from the past that shed light on the continuing struggles of urban public schools today. This far-reaching analysis…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Equal Education, Racial Integration
