In this article, the author talks about the disaster in the United States that reignited a debate about poverty and the responsibility of government--and government schools--that had never really gone away in the first place. Hurricane Katrina was one of the biggest natural disasters in the U.S. that swept through four states, killed more than…

Seamus Hodgkinson was raised in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles," a time of religious unrest and violence. Thousands of lives were lost as hatred between Catholic and Protestant groups escalated into intense battles. In 1957, Hodgkinson left Northern Ireland to accept a teaching position at the newly formed Doane Stuart School in…

This article examines how the interdistrict transfer of White students from a majority-Latino school to a majority-White school increased school segregation in a small California town. The article argues that White parents' decisions to transfer their children, coupled with the sending school district's decision to allow the transfers, constituted…

This article examines the effect of history and law in the segregation and integration of Latinas/os in schools. Initially, a Critical Race Theory (CRT) analysis of the question of the effects of Latina/o school desegregation history and law on their present-day educational conditions highlighted the reasons for the omni-present struggle for…

Those who favor expansion of consumer choice in education claim that competition would force schools to improve. Critics claim that it would sort students by race and class. A competitive market will provide what consumers demand, yet neither side has empirical evidence on such consumer preferences to back up their claims. This paper offers such…

Philosophical, economic, and political arguments are presented for a separate American Indian school system. (JC)

Outlines aims and program strategies for school districts to consider in attempting to cope with four problem areas associated with racial imbalance: imbalance in the black minority school population across a school district; segregation resulting from current school attendance boundaries; segregation or resegregation resulting from…

A review of the various actions, reactions, and social implications of various court decisions and decrees on the desegregation process. (EH)

The study reported here demonstrates institutional racism in the staffing procedures of the Buffalo public school system during the period 1956-63; the proportion of temporary, inexperienced and male teachers appointed to segregated black vs. segregated white schools was determined. (Author/JM)

Presents views of legislators and organizations who are opponents of busing school children to achieve racial balance in public schools. (SF)

Asserts that the Jewish experience in Germany, insofar as it may be generalized, suggests that minority education is significant to its constituency only insofar as it is perceived to be "useful" or "necessary": the primary defining factors are economic and social, and the conditions are set by the majority society, not by…

Paper delivered in part at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association in September, 1965.

Chapter 5

Quantitative and qualitative research methods combining case study methodology with numerical analyses were used to investigate the desegregation of Hispanics in selected school districts. Survey responses were analyzed in the areas of English language instruction, special education programs, discipline, grade retention, and staffing patterns. It…