Since 2000, school district secessions in the South have increasingly sorted white and black students, and white and Hispanic students, into separate school systems, weakening the potential to improve school integration, ...
Education
Sep 4, 2019
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(Phys.org)—The lifting of court-ordered school integration efforts over the last 22 years has led to the gradual unraveling of a key legacy of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. After being freed from judicial ...
Social Sciences
Dec 5, 2012
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Even though Brown v. Board of Education outlawed school segregation in 1954, racially segregated schools have persisted in practice. In recent years, the decades-long trend of white flight to suburbs has reversed in some ...
Education
Apr 10, 2023
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The decision of where to send a child for their K-12 education is a big one. According to new research from Rice University sociologists, approximately one-third of parents in their Dallas-based study make the call based ...
Social Sciences
Mar 8, 2023
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Slavery was abolished more than 150 years ago, but its effects are still felt today in K-12 education in the south, according to a new Rice University study, 'How the Legacy of Slavery and Racial Composition Shape Public ...
Social Sciences
Jun 22, 2015
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White families with children continue to live in predominantly white neighborhoods, in part to send their children to predominantly white schools, according to a new study on racial segregation in 100 metropolitan areas.
Social Sciences
Mar 23, 2017
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Housing segregation, making schooling a community matter, special teaching groups, individualisation and the right to freely choose which school to attend are factors explaining why Swedish school children perform worse than ...
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2010
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Nearly 70 years ago—in its 1954 Brown v. Board decision—the Supreme Court framed racial segregation as the cause of educational inequality. It did not, however, challenge the lengths to which states went to ensure the ...
Economics & Business
Apr 18, 2022
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Fifty years ago, communities across America began efforts to make school districts more racially integrated, believing it would ease racial disparities in students' educational opportunities. But new evidence shows that while ...
Social Sciences
Sep 23, 2019
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In the past 20 years, Martin Luther King's dream of the day when "little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls" through school desegregation has not been realized for ...
Social Sciences
Feb 22, 2011
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