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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"School segregation."”.
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Parent preferences and school segregation
Schools in New York City are deeply segregated by both race and class. The confluent forces of residential segregation and family school preference have led to increasingly segregated schools since the 1980s. The New York City Department of Education (DOE) has taken steps to desegregate schools …
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Three essays on the impact of student assignment policies
… papers investigate the impacts of the removal of school desegregation plans on school racial segregation and on ninth grade repetition rates in the U.S. The third paper examines the impact of the school choice policy in Seoul, Korea on school segregation by academic performance levels.</p> <p>Over …
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Race, class and gender in engineering education: A quantitative investigation of first year enrollment
… and race disparity as the result of processes of segregation linked to the historic and on-going perpetuation of systemic sources of oppression in the United States. In the first study, I investigate the relationship between the odds ratios of women and men enrolled in first year US engineering …
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Thomas H. Brewer and the Struggle for Civil Rights
… encouragement over this decision that declared school segregation unconstitutional, many white southerners felt anger, fear, and uncertainty about how this court decision would affect their lives.</p> <p>Their culture based on racial segregation was threatened with destruction. "Separate but …
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The Ambiguity of Diversity: How Parents Understand and React to School Desegregation Efforts
… York City has one of the most segregated public school systems in the United States. The Department of Education is attempting to address segregation through district level diversity planning processes that potentially change school admissions policies. Using mixed methods, this thesis explores …
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Black education in Montgomery County, Virginia, 1939-1966
… in Montgomery County, Virginia, during Jim Crow segregation because African American students were able to attend Christiansburg Institute (C.I.), a black secondary school with an excellent reputation. C.I. initially emphasized vocational education, but in the late 1940s administrators expanded …
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Resegregation: a case study of the failure of the color blind ideal in K-12 schooling policy
Given the current trend for school districts to reorganize once unitary status is achieved, a cultural ethnography was conducted to determine how high school students experienced the inevitable resegregation in their school system. The findings of this study reinforced and extended the arguments …
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Segregation, Transformation, and Urban Education: A History of Attaining Racial Equity in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District
This dissertation examines the history of racial segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, leading to the creation of the Hickman Mills C-1 Racial Equity Policy. The study’s six chapters present an analysis of the history of education and schooling in the greater Kansas City metropolitan community from …
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Forgetting strength : Coffeyville, the black freedom struggle, and the vanishing of memory
… that three "negroes" had raped two white high school girls, the incident ended very differently from so many others in the Jim Crow era. No one was lynched. The mob was driven back, first by black deputies at the jail, then by armed African Americans who prevented their neighborhood from being …
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Plessy to Brown: Education of Mexican Americans in Arizona public schools during the era of segregation
… of the historical events that shaped the public school education of Mexican American children in Arizona in the first half of the twentieth century. This study also examines how segregation was established in two cities in northern Arizona and how schooling affected the feelings and emotions of …
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School choice, competition and ethnic segregation in Lancashire : evidence from structural models of two-sided matching
… of ethnic sorting into English secondary schools. The thesis investigates the contribution of parental decision-making to observed patterns of school segregation, and also argues that sorting influences the efficacy of competition-based policies for ed- ucational improvement. Focusing upon …
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Essays in Economics of Education
… about the heterogeneity of gains from selective school admission. The question of who benefits from selective school enrollment remains controversial. I show that Boston exam schools have heterogeneous effects on achievement. Impact differences are driven primarily by the quality of an …
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Essays in Labor and Education Economics
… study the reasons behind racial disparities in school choices and propose two solutions to alleviate them: providing information about school quality and promoting attendance in racially integrated schools during earlier grades. Differences in school choice by race contribute to unequal access …
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A study of industrial arts education programs in Virginia for blacks, 1951-1969
… 347 US. 483 (1954), ruled that racial segregation in public education was constitutional. This decision was met with resistance from many of Virginia's white citizens, because the ruling attempted to alter the state's dual system of education. The education of white and colored students …
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A history of integration of the Waco public schools : 1954 to the present.
American public schools were segregated racially in most of the nation for more than a century after the first public school system was established in 1837 in Massachusetts. Desegregation and integration of the public schools nationwide began in 1954 when the United States Supreme Court made its …