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Jones, Tiffany – Educational Policy, 2016
The case study is an analysis of a state performance funding policy at a public historically Black college and university (HBCU). The policy attaches state funding to HBCU performance on measures like graduation rates and equity measures like the reduction in achievement gaps between Black and non-Black students. Participants liked that the policy…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Colleges, Black Colleges, Educational Finance
Kahlenburg, Richard D. – American Educator, 2017
Historically, teachers unions have played a special role in strengthening democratic cultures, and they are urgently called on to do so again. What is needed now more than ever says Kahlenberg, is a "social justice unionism" that goes beyond the narrow self-interest of members in bargaining for better wages and benefits to also engage in…
Descriptors: Social Change, Resistance to Change, Unions, Activism
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Drane, Gregory – Music Educators Journal, 2015
The service of blacks in the U.S. military can be traced back to the Revolutionary War. However, up to the end of World War I, African Americans in military branches were relegated to cooking and cleaning duties. As the United States prepared to enter World War II, pressure to admit African Americans into full service in the military increased due…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Military Personnel, African Americans, Musicians
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Bazana, Sandiso; Mogotsi, Opelo P. – Transformation in Higher Education, 2017
South African government has been promulgating pieces of legislation aimed at ensuring racial integration, especially in higher education, and indirectly enforcing acculturation in historically white universities. Studies have proven that institutional cultures in historically white universities alienate and exclude black students' identities.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Blacks, Minority Group Students, Student Experience
Bozkus, Kivanc – Online Submission, 2014
The purpose of this study is to research the evolution of policy of integrating children with disabilities into the general education settings in the U.S., keystone events that shaped the fates of disabled children and outcomes of policy decisions. According to the direction that these purposes provide, this paper tries to answer these questions:…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Special Education, School Desegregation, Racial Integration
Conchas, Gilberto Q., Ed.; Hinga, Briana M., Ed.; Abad, Miguel N., Ed.; Gutierrez, Kris D., Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2019
"The Complex Web of Inequality in North American Schools" analyzes and challenges the critical gaps and inequalities that persist in the American school system. Showing how historical biases have been inherited in current polices relating to non-dominant youth, the text calls for educational reforms that perform in the name of social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Change, Social Justice
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Xu, Yonghong Jade; Webber, Karen L. – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2018
Theoretically grounded in Tinto's model of retention and Braxton and colleagues' revisions , this study is designed to examine the applicability of the integration model to students of different racial backgrounds. Results from a sample of full-time undergraduate students at a research-extensive university suggest that (a) academic and social…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Student Diversity
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Johnson, Lauri – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2016
This comparative study examines the historical development of race equality efforts during the 1970s and 1980s in two global cities--Toronto and London--and the role of African Canadian and Black British educators in longstanding school-community partnerships. I characterize the leadership stance of Black educators as boundary spanners and…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Comparative Education, Race, Racial Integration
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Lee, Moosung; Lam, Beatrice Oi-Yeung; Madyun, Na'im – Urban Education, 2017
Based on analyses of 1,622 Hmong adolescents in a large urban school district, we illuminate a positive association between school different-race exposure and Hmong limited English proficient students' reading achievement. However, we also note a negative association of neighborhood different-race exposure with Hmong students from low…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Hmong People, Limited English Speaking, Adolescents
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Lancellot, Michael – Multicultural Learning and Teaching, 2016
This research is an ethnography (Murchison, 2010) that describes the lived experiences of a university professor and former public school superintendent. The work explores racial integration and desegregation of America's public school system. Through a series of seven semi-structured interviews, background information has been collected about the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Racial Integration, School Desegregation, Public Schools
Speed, John Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study examines leadership efforts that supported the civil rights movements that came from administrators and professors, students and staff at Tougaloo College between 1960 and 1964. A review of literature reveals that little has been written about the college's role in the Civil Rights Movement during this time. Thus, one goal of this study…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Black Colleges, Leadership, Civil Rights
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Pica-Smith, Cinzia; Poynton, Timothy A. – Professional School Counseling, 2015
Supporting interethnic and interracial friendships in schools among children and adolescents is an important part of a progressive educational agenda informed in equity, social justice frameworks, and critical multicultural education that leads to a reduction in racial prejudice. Positive intergroup contact is a necessary condition in prejudice…
Descriptors: Friendship, Racial Relations, Racial Attitudes, Racial Integration
Quick, Kimberly – Century Foundation, 2018
In a gentrifying area of St. Louis, Missouri, City Garden Montessori School is an integrated haven in a segregated city, as well as an active voice for racial justice and reconciliation. Realizing its power to both reflect and change its neighborhood, the school commits itself to harnessing its unique position to push for effective public policy…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Social Justice, Racial Bias, Public Schools
Goodman, Christie L., Ed. – Intercultural Development Research Association, 2017
Each edition of the IDRA Newsletter strives to provide many different perspectives on the issues in education topics discussed and to define its significance in the state and national dialogue. This issue focuses on School Integration and includes: (1) Using Socioeconomic Indicators as a Tool for School Diversity and Integration (David Hinojosa…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Teacher Education, Student Diversity, Cultural Pluralism
Egalite, Anna J.; Mills, Jonathan N.; Wolf, Patrick J. – School Choice Demonstration Project, 2016
The question of how school choice programs affect the racial stratification of schools is highly salient in the field of education policy. We use a student-level panel data set to analyze the impacts of the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) on racial segregation in public and private schools. This targeted school voucher program provides funding…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Scholarships, School Choice, Educational Vouchers
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