Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : School integration
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Fulfilling the Letter and Spirit of the Law
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : School integration
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Fulfilling the Letter and Spirit of the Law
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
School Desegregation: "a Free and Open Society"
Author: Richard Milhous NixonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Segregation in education
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Desegregation of the Nation's Public Schools
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Understanding School Desegregation
Author: United States Commission on Civil RightsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Segregation in education
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
The great progress of recent years towards school integration has not been uniform: pockets of resistance remain and the issues involved in school desegregation continue to arouse public controversy and confusion. Sixteen years after the Supreme Court (in Brown vs Topeka) had ruled that school segregation compelled or sanctioned by law unconstitutional, there is still no widespread understanding of the nature and scope of the issues. The Civil Rights Commission believes that public understanding of the issues involved in school desegregation is essential if they are to be resolved satisfactorily. Many of these issues are legal in nature and require careful analysis of relevant court decisions. Other issues involve practical questions concerning the quality of education afforded to the Nation's children. Still others relate to fundamental human and moral questions of national conscience. The Commission speaks out in the hope that it can shed light on the issues and, by so doing, contribute to their successful resolution. The issue of school desegregation, like other issues of national concern, has roots deep in history; to understand fully the present situation and to form a sound basis for determining courses of action for the future, what that history has been must first be understood. (Authors/JM).
School Desegregation
Author: Walter StephanPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461591554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
School Desegregation
Author: George W. NoblitPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9462099650
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This book is written for the Millennial Generation to educate them about what school desegregation was actually about—the struggle over white domination in the United States. The textbooks they read as high school students describe the heroic efforts of African Americans to achieve civil rights but do not describe who was denying them these rights—white Americans. The oral histories in this book reveal how individuals navigated efforts to achieve educational equity amidst efforts to reassert white domination. These accounts counter the textbook history the Millennial Generation read which omits the massive white resistance to school desegregation, the various ways whites used subterfuge to slow down and redirect school desegregation in what would more benefit whites, and the concerted white political backlash that has been ensconced in educational policy and reform beginning with A Nation at Risk and continuing in No Child Left Behind. That is, educational policy as we know it is all about asserting white domination and not about educating children, and thus the Millennial Generation is faced with undoing what their parents and grandparents have done.
Breaking the Promise of Brown
Author: Stephen BreyerPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815731884
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
" “A decision the Court and the Nation will come to regret.” Ten years ago, the United States Supreme Court struck down two local school board initiatives meant to reverse extreme racial segregation in public schools. The sharply divided 5-4 decision in Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District marked the end of an era of efforts by local authorities to fulfill the promise of racially integrated education envisioned by the Supreme Court in 1954 in Brown v. Board of Education. In a searing landmark dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer warned this was “a decision the Court and the Nation will come to regret.” A decade later, the unabated resegregation of America's schools continues to confirm Justice Breyer's fears, as many schools and school districts across the country are more racially segregated today than they were in the late 1960s. Edited and introduced by Justice Breyer's former law clerk—and accompanied by a sobering update on the state of segregated schools in America today—this volume contains the full text of Justice Breyer's most impassioned opinion, a dissent that Justice John Paul Stevens called at the time “eloquent and unanswerable.” The cautionary words of Justice Breyer should echo in classrooms across the country and in the hearts and minds of parents and schoolchildren everywhere. "
The American Dream and the Public Schools
Author: Jennifer L. HochschildPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199839689
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to succeed and those designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors show how policies to promote individual success too often benefit only those already privileged by race or class, and often conflict with policies that are intended to benefit everyone. They propose a framework that builds on our nation's rapidly changing population in order to help Americans get past acrimonious debates about schooling. Their goal is to make public education work better so that all children can succeed.
The Price They Paid
Author: Vivian Gunn MorrisPublisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 080774235X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
In this compelling book, Curtis and Vivian Morris put a human face on desegregation practices in the South. Focusing on an African American community in Alabama, they document not only the gains but also the significant losses experienced by students when their community school was closed and they were forced to attend a White desegregated school across town. This in-depth volume includes: -- A letter by Dr. William Hooper Councill and speeches by George Washington Trenholm -- two African American leaders who worked with communities to provide quality schooling for African American children during segregation. -- An insider's view of what life was like inside a segregated African American school -- including interviews with graduates who discuss how it felt to be in a caring and nurturing school that provided an atmosphere much like that of a family. -- Actual events that demonstrate the profound negative impact of using skin color and race as a basis for preferential treatment -- including testimonials from parents and students who experienced racial discrimination in their new school. -- A valuable look at the unmet promises of school desegregation that can help us provide a quality education for all children in the 21st century.