Justice: Miss. schools are still segregated -- But Cleveland officials say integration in placeShelia Byrd
9-year-old African-American student Linda Brown as she walks past Sumner Elementary School, Topeka, Kansas, 1953. When her enrollment in the racially segregated school was blocked, her family initiated the landmark Civil Rights lawsuit 'Brown V. Board of Education,' that led to...
School segregation persists in America today, largely because many of the neighborhoods in which schools are still located are themselves segregated. Despite the passage of the Fair Housing Act in 1968 and later judicial decisions making racial discrimination illegal, exclusionary economic-zon...
But that novel approach has fallen well short of its goal: there are such wide disparities in how students from different racial and socioeconomic status are assigned that Cambridge now has one of the most segregated schools in t...
As competition for students heats up, districts are turning to advertising--and are prospering Seven out of eight black children in the state of New York attend a segregated school, according to Jonathan Kozol, an elementary school teacher and author who has been studying inner-city public ...
re trying to address the subject through a racial justice lens. “Restorative justice is about accountability and repairing harm,” they note. “What about accountability for the system that has produced these underserved and essentially segregated schools and then punishes the kids for reacting to ...
Schools that were segregated twenty-five to thirty years ago are still segregated, and schools that had been integrated are now re-segregating. The achievement gap between black and white students, after narrowing for a few decades, started to widen once again in the early 1990s when federal ...
Segregated schools aren’t just the products of segregated neighborhoods. In many cases, predominantly white schools are driving the racial divide.
Charlotte-Mecklenburgdecision authorizing the use of busing, this large system had few segregated schools for decades, while continuing to grow rapidly. The district was known for its historically positive leadership in pairing schools Magnet schools represent the first mainstream policy effort to combine...
In conclusion, I believe the greatest benefit to gender-segregated classrooms appears to be the subsequent effect on behavior and self-esteem. Across the board, girls showed in improved rate of self esteem and confidence while boys displayed greater behavioral skills and discipline. This in itself ...