The Supreme Court decision banning school segregation is presented in this article. (MC)

A successful and effective Black teacher discusses racism, teacher training, professional standards, and the role of parents in education. (LH)

Examines the public school desegregation cases from a historical and legal perspective, and the impact of these efforts relative to judicial decision-making. (Author/IRT)

Race has played a key role in American life-style from the early colonial days to the present. Thus, it is a more important determinant of political behavior than class, particularly for Black Americans. (Author/MC)

Argues that the biggest obstacle to urban education reform is the unwillingness of educators to discuss the impact of increased racial and ethnic segregation on student achievement. Poverty is discussed, but not race. (PKP)

Explores how school choice has influenced ethnic segregation in Dutch primary schools. Shows that native Dutch parents are significantly more interested in a match between their social and cultural background and the pupil composition of schools than ethnic minority parents. Both groups of parents generally reject predominately…

Using critical race theory, analyzes how an apartheid in knowledge that marginalizes and devalues the scholarship, epistemologies, and cultural resources of minority faculty is embedded in higher education, questioning claims of objectivity, meritocracy, and individuality in society. Affirms the importance of using experiential knowledge in people…

Examines how school vouchers could lead to further racial segregation in education. Addresses the likelihood that widespread implementation of vouchers could increase segregation by fostering the creation and expansion of church-affiliated elementary and secondary schools. Focuses on vouchers, schools, and race; racial segregation in U.S.…

Investigated how well the spatial assimilation, primacy of race, and ethnic identity models would explain black immigrants' spatial relations with Whites and African Americans. Data from the 1990 decennial census Summary Tape File 4A and from the 1999 New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey indicated that regardless of degree of acculturation,…

To tackle racial problems in high schools, an Ann Arbor liaison group designed and administered a student questionnaire. Four major themes emerged: segregation (both social and academic), institutionalized discrimination (specifically, tracking), reverse discrimination, and stereotyping. Student response led to a multicultural education program…

Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Public Schools' two new coeducational African-American immersion schools are not segregationist. Key programmatic changes are based on an African social education concept and include staffing based on teaching experience (not race or gender), teacher class assignments lasting two or more years, teacher home visits, staff…

In 1979-80, residential mobility was lower among African Americans than non-African Americans after adjusting for differences in home ownership and sociodemographic characteristics. Both African-American and non-African-American mobility were influenced by life-cycle factors, housing characteristics, and metropolitan features, but African-American…

From the 1880s to 1909, Emily Prudden started dozens of schools for African-American and white students in Appalachian North Carolina then turned them over to Protestant mission societies. Although segregated, African-American and white mission schools had similar curricula, housing, work and religious requirements, and qualified staff. (SV)

A recent study's empirical tests suggest possible disparities (about 17 percent) in current funding of historically black colleges and universities. Overall redistribution of state funding would be necessary to move these colleges and predominantly white colleges and universities toward funding equity. (Contains 15 footnotes.) (MLH)