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Direct linkBrown, Frank – Education and Urban Society, 2004
The 50th anniversary of the historic 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" provides an opportunity to trace the origin of "Brown" and the long journey by African Americans to achieve quality elementary and secondary education in this country. This journey began with passage of the Fourteenth…
Descriptors: African Americans, United States History, Civil Rights, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textMcGuire, C. Kent – 1983
This review of the history of school finance litigation highlights various rulings of the courts and the ways that legal strategies have changed over time. Originally the school finance cases were based on the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the argument being that differences in per pupil spending had…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Bulletins, Court Litigation, Educational Equity (Finance)
