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Category : Discrimination in education
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Selected Court Decisions Relating to Equal Educational Opportunity ... March 1972
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational OpportunityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Selected Court Decisions Relating to Equal Educational Opportunity
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discrimination in education
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational OpportunityPublisher:
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Category : Discrimination in education
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Toward Equal Educational Opportunity
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational OpportunityPublisher:
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Category : Educational equalization
Languages : en
Pages : 1676
Book Description
Research in Education
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
Book Description
Brown v. Board of Education
Author: James T. PattersonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199880840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
2004 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision to end segregation in public schools. Many people were elated when Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren delivered Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in May 1954, the ruling that struck down state-sponsored racial segregation in America's public schools. Thurgood Marshall, chief attorney for the black families that launched the litigation, exclaimed later, "I was so happy, I was numb." The novelist Ralph Ellison wrote, "another battle of the Civil War has been won. The rest is up to us and I'm very glad. What a wonderful world of possibilities are unfolded for the children!" Here, in a concise, moving narrative, Bancroft Prize-winning historian James T. Patterson takes readers through the dramatic case and its fifty-year aftermath. A wide range of characters animates the story, from the little-known African Americans who dared to challenge Jim Crow with lawsuits (at great personal cost); to Thurgood Marshall, who later became a Justice himself; to Earl Warren, who shepherded a fractured Court to a unanimous decision. Others include segregationist politicians like Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas; Presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon; and controversial Supreme Court justices such as William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas. Most Americans still see Brown as a triumph--but was it? Patterson shrewdly explores the provocative questions that still swirl around the case. Could the Court--or President Eisenhower--have done more to ensure compliance with Brown? Did the decision touch off the modern civil rights movement? How useful are court-ordered busing and affirmative action against racial segregation? To what extent has racial mixing affected the academic achievement of black children? Where indeed do we go from here to realize the expectations of Marshall, Ellison, and others in 1954?
Achieving High Educational Standards for All
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309170184
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This volume summarizes a range of scientific perspectives on the important goal of achieving high educational standards for all students. Based on a conference held at the request of the U.S. Department of Education, it addresses three questions: What progress has been made in advancing the education of minority and disadvantaged students since the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision nearly 50 years ago? What does research say about the reasons of successes and failures? What are some of the strategies and practices that hold the promise of producing continued improvements? The volume draws on the conclusions of a number of important recent NRC reports, including How People Learn, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, Eager to Learn, and From Neurons to Neighborhoods, among others. It includes an overview of the conference presentations and discussions, the perspectives of the two co-moderators, and a set of background papers on more detailed issues.
Equal Educational Opportunity
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational OpportunityPublisher:
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Category : Segregation in education
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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