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Download full textYancey, William L.; Saporito, Salvatore J. – 1995
This paper describes the results of research examining the racial and socioeconomic segregation of public schools in two very different cities, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and Houston (Texas). Factors that explain the degree of racial and economic segregation and the consequences of this segregation for student academic achievement were examined.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education, Inner City
Leloudis, James L. – 1996
From 1880 through the mid-1920s, reformers labored to make a "New South" through the agency of public education. During those years, North Carolina led the way in building thousands of new schoolhouses, professionalizing teacher training, and developing an elaborate educational bureaucracy. Southern educational reform turned on the…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Teachers, Consolidated Schools, Educational Change
North Carolina Advisory Committee to the U. S. Commission on Civil Rights. – 1991
This summary report examines ability grouping and its possible use for in-school segregation in the North Carolina public schools. The report describes the development of concerns among minority parents about the placement of minority children in special education and low-ability classes and the investigation into the issue by a forum of six…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Advisory Committees, Black Students, Civil Rights
Scott, Elva R. – 1982
The 80-year history of education at Eagle on the Yukon (Alaska) includes 40 years when a dual system (white-Indian) was in operation, times when only one school was open, and changes following statehood. Eagle City was founded in 1898; the first white school opened in 1901 with seven students. The Indians lived at Eagle Village, 3 miles upriver.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, Educational History
Darling-Hammond, Linda – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2005
A major school district in Philadelphia has been taken over, handed out and chopped up. The for-profit Edison schools opened in Philadelphia, just as Dallas had asked them to leave for a lack of measurable improvement in schools. Linda Darling-Hammond frames this article around what happened in Philadelphia because she feels that in some ways it…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Politics of Education, Urban Schools, Urban Education
Fleming, Joseph E. – 1979
Influences that have had significant effect on North Carolina Central University, a historically black university with a liberal arts tradition, are examined. The following topics are considered: events relating to the university's founding; circumstances affecting the transition of the university from a private normal school to a public…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, Black Teachers, Educational History
Commission on Human Relations, Philadelphia, PA. – 1960
THIS 1960 STATEMENT OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS DESCRIBES THE PROBLEM OF DE FACTO SEGREGATION IN PHILADELPHIA. THE EXTENT OF SCHOOL AND FACULTY SEGREGATION IS INDICATED, AND THE REASONS FOR ITS EXISTENCE ARE DISCUSSED. IT IS FELT THAT THE CULTURAL DEFICIT WHICH RESULTS FROM RACIAL DISCRIMINATION AND SEGREGATION REQUIRES COMPENSATORY…
Descriptors: Black Achievement, Black Students, Community Attitudes, Compensatory Education
Miller, Harold J. – 1968
To determine how attending predominantly non-Indian schools affected rural Indian pupils, a study of 12 schools was conducted with specific objectives to: (1) determine differences by type of school attended and sex, (2) isolate and identify cultural conditions related to differences, (3) determine the comparative status of Indian pupils by…
Descriptors: Achievement, American Indians, Cultural Background, Desegregation Effects
Heyns, Barbara; Cohen, David K. – 1971
The present research was conducted to determine the relative importance of a variety of background variables and school effects on curriculum assignment in public high schools. The emphasis was on the sociological processes of selection and differentiation within schools, and the role of education in facilitating or blocking social mobility. A…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Curriculum Development, Equal Education
Mosteller, Frederick, Ed.; Moynihan, Daniel P., Ed.
In this volume are papers derived from the Harvard University Faculty Seminar on the Coleman Report. The Carnegie Corporation provided funds to support a faculty seminar for the academic year 1966-1967. Out of this seminar developed this present collection of articles written by a number of outstanding educators bearing on the main themes of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Academic Standards, Civil Rights
Supreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1974
In this Supreme Court litigation, respondents brought a class action alleging that the Detroit public school system is racially segregated as a result of the official policies and actions of petitioner state and city officials and seeking implementation of a plan to eliminate the segregation and establish a unitary nonracial school system. The…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, De Jure Segregation, Desegregation Litigation
Losen, Daniel J., Ed.; Orfield, Gary, Ed. – 2002
This collection of papers discusses issues related to the overidentification of minority students in special education. After a "Foreword" (Senator James M. Jeffords) and an introduction, "Racial Inequality in Special Education" (Daniel J. Losen and Gary Orfield), 11 chapters include: (1) "Community and School Predictors…
Descriptors: Black Students, Court Litigation, Disabilities, Disproportionate Representation
Smelser, Neil J., Ed.; Wilson, William Julius, Ed.; Mitchell, Faith, Ed. – 2001
This collection of papers explores past and current trends among African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, and Native Americans in the context of a white majority. The papers, presented at the 1998 Research Conference on Racial Trends in the United States, provide analyses of racial and social dynamics and recommendations for future…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affirmative Action, American Indians, Asian Americans
Kurlaender, Michal; Yun, John T. – 2001
This study evaluated whether or not there was a compelling educational interest in diversity within the Jefferson County, Kentucky, public schools. High school students (mainly juniors) completed the Diversity Assessment Questionnaire, which asked about their experiences with diversity in their schools and classrooms. It also examined students'…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Black Students, Citizenship, Court Litigation
Peer reviewedDougherty, Kevin J. – Sociology of Education, 1996
Describes the rise of the opportunity-to-learn movement and criticizes how the movement's standards have been conceptualized to date. Argues that these standards disregard the in-school factors--curricular and instructional differentiation and racial and class segregation--and the extra-school factors--home environments and educational…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Educational Attainment, Educational Background, Educational Opportunities
