School desegregation and equitable access to educational opportunity takes alignment in the housing and education sectors. Racist housing policies and practices have systematically limited access to opportunity for generations of people of color, profoundly affecting their wealth, and perpetuating racial disparities in opportunity and well-being…

Oftentimes, policymakers discuss school reform only in terms of its benefits to students. In this brief, researcher Bartley R. Danielsen identifies how more multifaceted reforms can not only improve educational outcomes for students but also revitalize communities by encouraging wealthy families to remain in lower-income areas, thereby raising…

This study aims to investigate the politics of inclusion and exclusion embedded in South Korea's multicultural education documents. The study examines eight multicultural education policy documents published annually from 2006 to 2013; it focuses on what strategies the government chooses to acculturate multicultural families and students. As a…

"Residential segregation's causes are both knowable and known," writes Richard Rothstein. According to Rothstein, those causes are "20th century federal, state, and local policies explicitly designed to separate the races." Even seasoned policymakers are convinced that the residential isolation of low-income black children is…

The education policy and philanthropy communities to date have placed a premium on funding charter schools that have high concentrations of poverty and large numbers of minority students. This report asks: Might it make more sense for foundations and policymakers to embrace a variety of approaches, including efforts to demonstrate the feasibility…

The powerful, reciprocal connection between school and housing segregation has long been recognized. The housing-school link was a key element in both the 1968 Kerner Commission Report and in the legislative history of the Fair Housing Act. The relation of school and housing segregation was also explored in a series of school desegregation cases…

While the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) has been charged with the responsibility of withholding Federal assistance from school districts that do not comply with the non-discrimination clauses of Title VI of the 1964 act, it is charged that HEW's Office of Civil Rights has not asserted jurisdiction and investigated, and HEW has…

This paper explores the complex issues involved in school desegregation policy and describes the trends in major Supreme Court desegregation cases through the late 1970s. The result of the Court's decision in "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka" was ambiguous at best. Segregation was found to deny equal protection of the laws since it…

Critically examines James S. Coleman's stated views on public school desegregation and public policy, asserting that the use of empirical research on the effects of desegregation to form policy on the pursuance of integration overlooks the rights blacks have as citizens to integrated public facilities, including schools. (JM)

This article is a general overview of desegregation. Discussion first centers on the weakening of desegregation by federal housing programs, school board policies and opportunistic politicians, and then proceeds to the relationship of desegregation and poverty. (Author)

Concludes that school desegregation has such an incredible ideological momentum that objective and rational assessment of its true effects often seems unattainable. Until there is solid evidence that educational and social benefits of desegregation outweigh its harmful effects, it should not be imposed upon an unwilling public. (Author/JM)

Suggests that the most important aspect of successful school desegregation in Seattle was the quality of the political process. Identifies main participants and their organizations which comprise the public decision-making system. Discusses these in light of the political values which characterize Seattle's political culture. (Author/GC)

Argues that the legal and political effort to open up the suburbs to the poor and black, which has become perhaps the most important thrust in the policy area, is not necessary, for integration of blacks is occurring, while a major public policy for the integration of the poor would be impossible to implement. (Author/JM)

Proposes that the utilization of the "benign quota" or the "planned interracial community" practice, wisely and cautiously administered, may actually expedite the process of desegregation: "benign quota" calls for the use of an agreed upon percentage representation of blacks (or any other minority) and whites (or any other majority), it is stated…

Coleman's message has been misunderstood, it is argued, because the scholar has been engaging in a perilous exercise that is not uncommon among social scientists. He has been mixing rhetoric and research in many recent pronouncements, and few people know which is which. The scientist and advocate hats must be clearly labeled. (Author/JM)