Publication Date
| In 2025 | 4 |
| Since 2024 | 49 |
| Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 255 |
| Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 611 |
| Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 1239 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Teachers | 77 |
| Practitioners | 65 |
| Policymakers | 36 |
| Researchers | 28 |
| Administrators | 17 |
| Students | 14 |
| Community | 4 |
| Parents | 3 |
| Counselors | 1 |
Location
| South Africa | 581 |
| United States | 93 |
| California | 51 |
| North Carolina | 50 |
| New York (New York) | 39 |
| Texas | 39 |
| New York | 36 |
| Mississippi | 32 |
| Virginia | 30 |
| Alabama | 29 |
| Michigan | 28 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Download full textSerrano, Vicente Z. – 1980
Because Hispanics are the fastest growing minority in the United States and are projected to become the largest minority during the 1980's, the education system must be more responsive to their needs. Fewer Hispanic children enroll in school than do non-Hispanics, many of them fall behind in school, and they have higher attrition rates than…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Background, Educational Legislation, Educational Needs
Southern Exposure, 1979
The focus of this volume is on changes in the status of Southern blacks since the Brown decision, and problems still to be solved, especially in the area of equal educational opportunity. Several articles describe specific events which occurred during the civil rights movement and discuss their impact on school integration. Other authors discuss…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Black History, Blacks, Case Studies
SOLOMON, BENJAMIN – 1966
THIS ARTICLE REVIEWS THE PATTERNS OF PREJUDICE AND DE FACTO SEGREGATION MAINTAINED BY THE SCHOOLS. IT IS FELT THAT THERE MUST BE CHANGES IN ALL ASPECTS OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS TO ACHIEVE FULL SCHOOL INTEGRATION. AREAS NEEDING CHANGE INCLUDE ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENTS, CURRICULUM BIAS, AND THE LOW LEVEL OF TEACHERS' EXPECTATIONS AND STANDARDS…
Descriptors: Black Students, De Facto Segregation, Educational Attitudes, Educational Discrimination
Courant, Paul N.; Yinger, John – 1975
Economists have studied the effects of racial prejudice on urban residential structure using a set of models that focus on conditions at the border between the black and white areas. This paper reviews the theoretical literature on these border models and investigates their generality. Section 1 considers the border model developed by Bailey in…
Descriptors: Black Housing, Comparative Analysis, Housing, Housing Discrimination
Zoloth, Barbara S. – 1974
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, three measures of segregation, with the empirical focus on school segregation. The first measure is based on the absolute deviation of the racial composition of a school from that of the school district, the second is based on the square of that deviation, and the third is derived from…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Enrollment, Information Theory, Measurement Techniques
Loewen, James W. – 1971
Society in the Delta region of Mississippi is still rigidly segregated. A vast social and economic gulf yawns between the dominant white and subordinate black. Yet one group in Mississippi, a "third race," the Chinese, has managed to leap that chasm. This book focuses on the causes of their changes in status, the processes by which it…
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Economic Factors, Ethnic Relations, Group Status
Cohen, Ronald D. – 1975
The Gary, Indiana, public schools, under the supervision of William A. Wirt (1907-1938), were the most written about, analyzed, and praised of any "progressive" school system in the 1920's. Although the system was criticized in a survey made by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1918, Gary, Indiana, schools continued in their progressive mold…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Educational History, Educational Innovation, Educational Methods
Craig, Benjamin L. – 1970
This report, written by the defense counsel for the Denver Board of Education, analyzes the events prior to and the chronological details of a law suit, filed in June 1969 against the Denver School District, alleging racial segregation. Events between 1956 and 1962 that led to the litigation are recounted: school board action in regard to boundary…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Civil Rights Legislation, Compensatory Education, Court Litigation
New York State Bar Association, Albany. Committee on Civil Rights. – 1964
Reviewed are the New York State Statutes (up to 1964) relevant to school integration and segregation. On the whole, the issue of segregation in New York is defacto rather than dejure, so that racial imbalance stems from discriminatory residential patterns. The document discusses the applicable legal cases under such headings as forbidden…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, De Facto Segregation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Arkley, Alfred S. – 1974
The political behavior and orientations of 1027 fifth-grade students in 18 inner-city, racially segregated, low socioeconomic status elementary schools were examined in two Michigan cities in 1970. The political effects of racial composition were different for each race. As elementary schools became increasingly black, average student political…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students, Inner City
Dentler, Robert A. – 1972
Segregation has been part of the cultural design of American society from the pre-industrial rural period to the present, post-industrial urban period. This paper, however, is concerned with learning within contemporary school settings. Ethnic segregation is one major type of group separation within American schools and within the society.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Desegregation Effects, Educational Facilities
Falk, William W.; And Others – 1974
The study seeks an answer to the broad question: do black youths who attend racially desegregated schools have occupational aspirations and expectations which are significantly different (higher or lower) from black youths who attend racially segregated schools? The sample was limited to youths from 3 rural Texas counties and only those with…
Descriptors: Black Students, Career Development, Comparative Analysis, Disadvantaged
Hawley, Amos H., Ed.; Rock, Vincent P., Ed. – 1973
The papers included in this volume were originally prepared for the Social Science Panel brought together by the Division of Behavioral Sciences of the National Research Council at the request of the National Academy of Sciences--National Academy of Engineering's Advisory Committee to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The task of…
Descriptors: Housing Discrimination, Housing Opportunities, Institutional Role, Integration Studies
PDF pending restorationMader, Frederick H.; Mader, Paul Douglas – 1975
This study is an exploratory research effort dealing specifically with the relationship between six independent variables (number of private schools, city or county school district, metropolitan or nonmetropolitan location of schools, private school affiliation, private school types, existence of social elite enrolled in private schools) and a…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, County School Districts, Elementary Secondary Education, Parochial Schools
Bullard, Sara, Ed. – 1989
Along with the history of the civil rights movement, this publication, which is well suited for classroom use, tells the stories of those who died during that struggle. Their lives serve as examples of the many personal tragedies suffered for a movement that transformed America from a society in which blacks were routinely excluded from full…
Descriptors: Biographies, Black History, Black Leadership, Civil Rights
