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Peer reviewedRumberger, Russell W.; Willms, J. Douglas – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1992
The extent and impact of racial and ethnic segregation in California high schools in the 1988-89 school year are examined, using data on 896 high schools and 198,127 twelfth-grade students. Racial segregation and ethnic segregation are widespread. Segregation can lead to achievement differences across schools and among ethnic groups. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Black Students, Estimation (Mathematics)
Peer reviewedCastle, Evangeline McConnell – Educational Researcher, 1993
Addresses challenges of enrolling and retaining racial and ethnic minority students in higher education. Issues of human resource development needs, the underrepresentation of minorities, and participation of minorities in the skilled labor force are related to institution-level attrition research. Intervention should be based on recognizing…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, College Students, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Download full textFISCHER, JOHN H. – 1966
THE STRUGGLE FOR EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY DEMANDS DIRECT CONFRONTATION OF THE PROBLEM, DETERMINED AND ABLE LEADERSHIP BY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, AND COORDINATION OF COMMUNITY AND AGENCY SUPPORT. THE LACK OF FIRST-RATE SCHOOLS IN NEGRO COMMUNITIES AND THE PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECT UPON THE INDIVIDUAL ATTENDING A SCHOOL WHERE EVERY PUPIL RECOGNIZES THAT HIS…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Citizen Participation, Community Support, De Facto Segregation
Nelsen, Edward A.; Uhl, Norman P. – 1976
A questionnaire describing 87 environmental characteristics of schools is administered to entering freshmen at a predominantly black university to study the relationships of racial composition to various dimensions of school environment and social climate. Both racial and nonracial aspects of school environments are examined. Correlation of the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Environment, College Freshmen, Discipline Problems
Crane, Dennis; Schiffman, Douglas – 1975
The complex interactions which led to the implementation of the court-ordered desegregation plans for two cities in Massachusetts involve not only the courts but many levels of government. The school departments, the school committees, the mayors, the State Board of Education, the legislature, the governor, and the citizens of Massachusetts, all…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Role, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Johnson, Carroll F., Ed.; Usdan, Michael D., Ed. – 1968
A 2-day institute examined the relationship between two central policy alternatives facing large city school districts: Decentralization and integration. Titles and authors of the 11 major addresses presented at the institute are as follows: (1) "Urban Schools: Issues in Responsiveness and Control," by John H. Fischer; (2) "Children…
Descriptors: Black Power, Civil Rights, Community Control, Compensatory Education
Pogany, Peter P. – 1973
The study applied the conventional linear transportation program to the student assignment problem and investigated methods of measuring the achieved level of desegregation. Existing measures of desegregation were analyzed, and two new indexes were developed for use in the present model and probably for other system analytical models designed to…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Attendance, Bus Transportation, Cost Effectiveness
Gibson, John S. – 1971
Beginning with the thesis that integrated education is indispensable to achieving an integrated society, the author examines first whether these assumptions behind school desegregation are valid or not, and why: that students will perform better academically, and that more democratic human relations will ensue. He presents evidence to show that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Education, Black Students, Classroom Desegregation
Deever, Bryan – 1991
As integration was enacted under federal mandate in Georgia in 1969, a number of parallel curricular changes were made. This paper examines those changes and the accompanying discursive practices that were produced in the context of school integration. Using a postmodern conception of power and the tactics of power based on the writing of Michel…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Curriculum Development, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Kazal-Thresher, Deborah M. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 1993
Educational finance reforms and desegregation have both sought to address inequities in educational opportunities for minorities and low income families. The recent methods of addressing desegregation issues have tended to focus on attaining racial balance rather than educational quality, however. This paper explores how desegregation goals can be…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Centralization, Definitions
Maryland Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, Baltimore. – 1982
In January 1982, the Maryland Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights conducted a forum in order to hear from community representatives, members of the Montgomery County School Board, and other local officials about the impact of school board decisions to close selected schools in the countywide school district. On the…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Board of Education Role, Busing, Civil Rights
HOWE, HAROLD, II – 1966
WITH THEIR PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AND POSITIONS OF INFLUENCE, EDUCATIONAL LEADERS AT EVERY LEVEL BEAR A MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY IN ACHIEVING REALISTIC SCHOOL DESEGREGATION THROUGHOUT THE NATION. THE EDUCATOR MUST PROVIDE A COMMON MEETING GROUND FOR THE YOUNG NORTHERN NEGRO WHOSE LIFE IS CIRCUMSCRIBED WITHIN A PREDOMINANTLY BLACK GHETTO AND THE WHITE…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Civil Rights Legislation, Compensatory Education, De Facto Segregation
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. – 1966
VARIOUS ASPECTS OF A NEW YORK CITY COMMUNITY ZONING PLAN (CZP) ARE EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. INITIATED IN 1964, THE PLAN WAS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE ETHNIC BALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS BY PAIRING SELECTED ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS TO CREATE SINGLE ATTENDANCE ZONES. STUDENTS IN THE LOWER GRADES ATTENDED ONE SCHOOL WHILE THOSE IN THE UPPER GRADES ATTENDED THE…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Administrator Evaluation, Arithmetic, Attendance
NCRIEEO Newsletter, 1972
The Equal Educational Opportunity Workshop for Human Rights Workers focused on the theme "Equal Educational Opportunity--What Does It Mean to the Human Rights Worker? A Deep Examination of Professional Commitment." Most school systems and educational institutions have human rights specialists devoting staff time and resources to race and…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Compensatory Education, Cultural Enrichment, Cultural Isolation
Rossell, Christine H. – 1990
This book addresses issues in the field of school desegregation and public policy and compares the desegregation effectiveness of voluntary plans with magnet schools to mandatory reassignment plans with magnet schools. Issues addressed include: (1) how school desegregation plans have evolved over time; (2) how one measures the desegregation…
Descriptors: Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Desegregation Methods, Educational Policy
