In this article, the author discusses racial and school segregation with the Plessy vs. Ferguson case, as well as the Brown vs. Board of Education case as an example. The Plessy case deals with Louisiana's separate car law, wherein a 30-year-old apprentice shoemaker named Homer Plessy, who was 1/8 Negro, was arrested for sitting in the Whites-only…

Levels and Dronkers (2006) showed that educational achievement differs between immigrant students from different regions of origin (Latin America, Northern Africa, and Western Asia). This follow-up paper establishes whether these differences in educational achievement between immigrant students from different regions of origin can be explained by…

In May 2006, a group of experts in language education from Europe, Canada and Israel gathered to discuss and reflect in a conference entitled: "Into the Future--Towards Bilingual Education in Israel." The conference, held at the University of Haifa, was initiated and organized by the Jewish-Arab Center and sponsored by the Zeit Stiftung…

Although the No Child Left Behind Act was intended to help "all students meet high academic standards," it is focused on subgroups of low-achieving students. The authors analyze the possible impact of the legislation's requirement for performance reporting by racial subgroup in light of the considerable racial segregation in U.S.…

An analysis of the theoretical, psychological, and practical implications of black community control of schools as a viable response to white separatism and discrimination. (EH)

An exploration of the complex relationship between attitudes toward the situational contexts of pupil redistribution, ethnic integration, and opinions regarding the school transportation issue. Opposition to pupil distribution appeared to result more from attitudes toward the objects of redistribution than from the situational contexts of…

Desegregated students showed greater gains in reading achievement at the end of 7 months than segregated students; however these differences may be due to qualitative differences in reading instruction and do disappear after 24 months. Black students I.Q.'s increased under conditions of desegregation while students in the control school lost…

Suggests that a substantial section of the population in Northern Ireland is deprived of educational advantages which are selectively accorded to students on the basis of religion, class and sex. The issues of comprehensive and integrated education are seen as predominating in the 1970's. (Author/SF)

The recent U.S. District Court decision calling for the replacement of segregated and dualistic systems of public higher education with unitary systems may become as important to higher education as the Supreme Court's Brown decision, according to this report, which focuses on the 10 states named in the Adams vs Richardson litigation: Arkansas,…

Children of migrant farmworkers have the highest dropout rates, the lowest achievement levels, and the most failures. Performances of migrant children deviate so drastically from the norm that common evaluation techniques are not even valid for this group. Attempts to measure performance in school are consistently invalidated due to the migrant's…

This study discusses the linkage between socioeconomic variables and school segregation, showing that black concentration and school district size are predictors of school segregation. The impact of federal enforcement of school desegregation in the South between 1968 and 1970 is examined. (Author/RM)

Two kinds of research, quantitative investigations and qualitative studies, are needed to assist policy makers in understanding the White flight/school desegregation relationship. At the least, a pluralistic model of research strategies and many more case studies should be undertaken before and after public policy intervention. (Author/KR)

According to the Washington Council of Lawyers, the Civil Rights Division has taken the position that segregation in state higher education systems is tolerable, so long as certain steps are taken to equalize the quality of schools. While upgrading quality is certainly important, the problem is that "equalization" combined with open…

In any discussion over what reform measures can best close the achievement gap between white and minority children, one cannot ignore what the courts have had to say about the issue. Advocates have historically used the court system to require elected branches of government to increase education spending and resources, even when the political will…

Schools in Mississippi have undergone phases of change in which racial segregation and patterns of resistance to change have been influenced significantly by residential segregation at the local level and by racial composition of the population at broader scales. The fifth phase is likely to be a return to some form of dual school system.…