A documentation of racism in Boston and New England schools from colonial times to the present, coupled with a plea for black people to continue their struggle against white supremacy and for educational equality. (EH)

An excerpt from Morgan et al., v. Hennigan et al., in U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, in which the court found that the Boston public schools were segregated as a result of purposeful actions of school board members who acted with intent to segregate the schools. (EH)

The document consists of the testimony given at Congressional hearings in 1965. Included are statements by educators, labor leaders, and representatives of various organizations relevant to the status of defacto segregation in the Chicago public schools. (NH)

Presents the authors' defense of their report "Public and Private Schools." The authors evaluate criticism of report findings in three areas: governance in schools, cognitive outcomes in public and private schools, and the segregative impact of private schools. (AM)

Many supporters of school choice argue that neighborhood assignment to public schools results not in diversity, but in the opposite: schools that are less likely to contain a diverse mix of students and that are more internally segregated along racial lines than are schools of choice. In recent years, a number of empirical studies of the effects…

The issue of social segregation in schools has seen a recent resurgence of interest--in the US, UK and internationally--as the debate rages on about whether policies that expand families' freedom to choose amongst schools encourage divergence or convergence in the types of pupil different schools admit. Most attention has been focussed on…

Criticizes the conclusion in the Coleman, Hoffer and Kilgore study "Public and Private Schools" that private schooling does not affect overall racial segregation in American schools. The authors discuss four flaws in the research methodology that make its conclusions invalid. (AM)

Within-school segregation occurs when children classified for special education are disproportionately poor and minorities. Inclusive education, services for marginalized students, and long-term structural change are needed. (SK)

Public school choice sounds egalitarian, but questions of funding and equity raise the possibility of an excuse for racial segregation. Questions what will happen to equality as well as to quality in public education if proponents of school choice succeed in shifting revenues away from poor schools. (MLF)

Examined photographs taken of U.S. public school classes between the 1880s and the 1940s. Found significant gaps and historical amnesia, with segregated collections that reproduce images of hierarchy and dominance. The photographic archives searched convey biased views of the history of education and minority groups in the United States. (SLD)

In this article, the author discusses racial and school segregation with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, as well as the Brown vs. Board of Education case as an example. The Plessy case deals with Louisiana's separate car law, wherein a 30-year-old apprentice shoemaker named Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 Negro, was arrested for sitting in the Whites-only…

Suggests that a substantial section of the population in Northern Ireland is deprived of educational advantages which are selectively accorded to students on the basis of religion, class and sex. The issues of comprehensive and integrated education are seen as predominating in the 1970's. (Author/SF)

Describes the pattern of school segregation for five major ethnic groups in the city of Toronto, compares findings for Toronto with those for other North American cities, and describes the relationship between the extent of segregation and the percentage of students in special education classes. (Author/RK)

The conflict which exists between supporters of segregation academies and supporters of the public school system is, it is said, destroying public education in much of the rural South. (NQ)

Addressed whether Arizona charter schools were more ethnically segregated than traditional public schools by studying 55 urban and 57 rural charter schools. Nearly half showed evidence of substantial ethnic segregation, and charter schools were higher in white enrollment than other public schools. (SLD)