Publication Date
In 2025 | 11 |
Since 2024 | 68 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 214 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 504 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 831 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
Policymakers | 20 |
Practitioners | 17 |
Teachers | 14 |
Researchers | 13 |
Administrators | 6 |
Parents | 6 |
Community | 4 |
Students | 3 |
Location
California | 72 |
North Carolina | 51 |
United States | 38 |
New York (New York) | 37 |
United Kingdom (England) | 36 |
Texas | 35 |
United Kingdom (Northern… | 33 |
South Africa | 31 |
New York | 30 |
Virginia | 28 |
Alabama | 24 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Lambright, Nsombi – 2001
Racism is still the central problem in Mississippi. The White community resists participation by African Americans in every aspect of political, economic, educational, and cultural life. Education is the key to breaking the system, and it is no secret that the state's school boards, legislators, and corporations want to keep Black children and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Activism, Black Education, Community Action
Ellen, Ingrid Gould; O'Regan, Katherine; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna – 2001
This study examines the degree to which New York City's immigrant students are segregated and how segregation varies across groups with differing language skills and from different countries. It notes how schools attended by immigrant students differed by student characteristics, teachers, and funding levels. After reviewing the literature on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cultural Differences, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Environment
Laosa, Luis M. – ETS Policy Notes, 2001
This issue reviews national demographic trends in school segregation, summarizing research findings. Though the national debate on school segregation emphasizes blacks and whites, present-day school segregation includes segregation by socioeconomic level, ethnicity, and native language. The research study examined features of the ecology of…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Darby, J.; And Others – CORE: Collected Original Resources in Education, 1978
A survey of the management, religious practices, teaching methods, and extracurricular activities in 250 Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland revealed more similarities than differences. (CP)
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Comparative Analysis, Differences, Elementary Secondary Education

Shavit, Yossi – American Sociological Review, 1990
Explores the pattern of Arab-Israeli men attending postsecondary schools at higher rates than Oriental Jews in Israel. Tests and corroborates the explanation that Arabs benefit from a separate, predominantly college preparatory school system, while Oriental Jews must compete with European-origin Jews and are disproportionately tracked into…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Educational Discrimination, Educational Status Comparison, Ethnic Discrimination

Walker, Emilie V. Siddle – Urban Review, 1993
Reviews the daily interactions identified as part of the interpersonal "caring" in "good" segregated schools, discusses the response of students to caring, and explores the significance of caring in historical context and implications for current reform. Uses data from a historical ethnographic study of Caswell County Training…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Education, Black History, Black Institutions
Heller, Rafael – 1992
Teacher employment patterns in metropolitan Chicago (Illinois) were studied using data from the Illinois State Board of Education. Findings show no signs of affirmative action in many of the region's rapidly growing school systems. In many of the metropolitan area's districts, there is a persistence of segregated employment patterns and the…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Enrollment
Korris, Steven J. – 1994
This 1994 report presents findings on Madison Metropolitan School District's dual system of education for White and African American students. Among the study's findings are the following: (1) African American dropouts outnumbered African American graduates; (2) students from low-income families scored higher on standard tests than African…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Trent, William T. – 1981
This paper examines academic program, course enrollments, and extracurricular memberships in racially and ethnically integrated high schools with the aim of determining the extent of participation by black and white students within schools. The goal of the study was to ascertain whether students are resegregated in schools through these…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Extracurricular Activities
Rutkowski, Edward, Ed. – Journal of the Midwest History of Educational Society, 1978
The papers in this document feature four themes: religion and education, the nature of childhood and its relationship to education, urban educational problems, and the character of educational journalism. Part 1 begins with "A Common Faith for the Common School? Religion and Education in Kansas, 1861-1900" (J. C. Carper) which compares…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Educational Change, Educational History, Government School Relationship
Orfield, Gary; And Others – 1989
This report examines national, state, and metropolitan trends in the desegregation of U.S. public schools, based on federal enrollment statistics. The data indicate that the White majority is declining, and that Hispanic, Asian, American Indian enrollments are growing rapidly. There has been no overall change in Black segregation on a national…
Descriptors: American Indians, Asian Americans, Black Students, De Facto Segregation
Crain, Robert L. – 1984
The public controversy surrounding recent government proposals for supporting private schools through tuition tax credits has prompted an interest in studying the impact of private schooling on racial segregation in education. This report examines the degree of black-white segregation in the Catholic schools in the Chicago and Cleveland…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Catholic Schools, Classroom Desegregation
St. John, Nancy H.
This paper is a review of research studies on the relation of school ethnic and socioeconomic composition to the academic performance of Negro children. Pertinent findings from studies using four different types of research design are reported--(1) studies which measure the performance of a minority group under conditions of either segregation or…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Data, Educational Quality
Fantini, Mario D.
The general perspective suggested by this paper is for the states to capitalize on the "new" educational money made available to them by Federal legislation to adopt a strategy for reforming its schools which includes (1) using the problem of the disadvantaged as the means for initiating widespread reform for all children, and (2) making…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Compensatory Education, Curriculum, Disadvantaged Youth
Rodgers, Harrell R., Jr.; Bullock, Charles S., III – 1976
This volume is a study of individual behavior manifested in the desegregation process of 31 Georgia school districts from 1965 to 1974. Major objectives of the study are to glean insight into the variables that determine whether school officials involved would comply with the law and to assess the impact of Federal desegregation guidelines. The…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Case Studies, Change Agents, Community Attitudes