There has been considerable scholarly interest in issues related to gender in the classroom, especially in terms of finding ways in which classrooms might be configured to be more welcoming--and less “chilly”--to female students. There is some evidence to suggest that the online learning enviro...
School Segregation: Despite desegregation efforts, many schools remain de facto segregated due to residential segregation and disparities in school funding. Achievement Gap: African American students often have less access to high-quality educational resources, leading to lower educational attainment and ach...
The Department of Justice consulted with the State Department on the drafting of an amicus brief in Brown that argued that ending racially segregated schools would halt the Soviet critique of racial abuses tolerated by the U.S. system of government and thereby help combat global communism. Ending...
While Title IX currently permits select single-sex classes—in physical education or to remedy past discrimination, for example—it doesn't allow schools to segregate students arbitrarily. 11 There are powerful reasons for this. Whenever groups have been segregated, the least-valued group has ended ...
in places like Princeville and Fair Bluff after recent hurricanes. It’s no coincidence that the most heavily flooded places were inhabited largely by African Americans. If you’re as old as me you remember segregated restaurants, doctor’s offices, movie theaters, and schools. Churches are ...
Portia K. MaultsbyCollege Music Symposium
King was born in 1929. His given name was Michael, but later he had it changed to Martin. He grew up in Atlanta,Georgia, attending segregated public schools. After earning his high school diploma and starting college at only 15 years old, he went on to obtain a doctorate in 1955. While...
Who desegregated schools? Throughout the first half of the 20th century there were several efforts to combat school segregation, but few were successful. However, in a unanimous 1954 decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case,the United States Supreme Courtruled segregation in public school...
The students were taking notes and we were ruminating on recent events in schools and our course readings that seemed to help situate the tenets in meaningful ways. I cued up a five-minute scene from a film documentary, Monumental Myths (Trinley, 2012), to highlight the interrelated nature...
hundreds of black people killed and buried in mass graves, and a new order of “white only” became the law of the south. Police in the south were assigned to enforce the segregated order, to keep blacks in their place. The role police had in blocking black citizens from voting is long...