Ira W. Lit
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300105797
- eISBN:
- 9780300153279
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300105797.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Education
This book offers a compelling and uniquely detailed examination of the experiences of kindergarten students in California participating in a voluntary school desegregation program. It focuses on the ...
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This book offers a compelling and uniquely detailed examination of the experiences of kindergarten students in California participating in a voluntary school desegregation program. It focuses on the day-to-day school life of a group of minority children bussed from their poor-performing home school district to an affluent neighboring district with high-performing schools. Through these kindergarteners' experiences, the book sensitively illuminates the processes of school transition, socialization, and adaptation, and addresses an array of important issues relating to American education. The book acutely observes these 'bus kids' and the quality of their social, emotional, cultural and academic experiences. It presents a moving picture of the complexity of challenges, often unrecognized by teachers and parents, each young student confronted every day.Less
This book offers a compelling and uniquely detailed examination of the experiences of kindergarten students in California participating in a voluntary school desegregation program. It focuses on the day-to-day school life of a group of minority children bussed from their poor-performing home school district to an affluent neighboring district with high-performing schools. Through these kindergarteners' experiences, the book sensitively illuminates the processes of school transition, socialization, and adaptation, and addresses an array of important issues relating to American education. The book acutely observes these 'bus kids' and the quality of their social, emotional, cultural and academic experiences. It presents a moving picture of the complexity of challenges, often unrecognized by teachers and parents, each young student confronted every day.
Chinh Q. Le
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807835128
- eISBN:
- 9781469602585
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807869208_frankenberg.8
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
This chapter traces the history of civil rights enforcement, paying particular attention to the politicization that occurred under the administration of George W. Bush in the Office of Civil Rights ...
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This chapter traces the history of civil rights enforcement, paying particular attention to the politicization that occurred under the administration of George W. Bush in the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and the subsequent damage to the civil rights agenda. It also offers political, legal, and policy recommendations for advancing the integration agenda. First, it sets forth a proposal to address hundreds of cases on the federal government's school desegregation docket. Second, it offers a series of recommendations on how the federal government can develop an affirmative strategies for voluntary school integration.Less
This chapter traces the history of civil rights enforcement, paying particular attention to the politicization that occurred under the administration of George W. Bush in the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) and the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, and the subsequent damage to the civil rights agenda. It also offers political, legal, and policy recommendations for advancing the integration agenda. First, it sets forth a proposal to address hundreds of cases on the federal government's school desegregation docket. Second, it offers a series of recommendations on how the federal government can develop an affirmative strategies for voluntary school integration.
Olivier Esteves
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526124852
- eISBN:
- 9781526144683
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526124852.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter analyses the different forms that dispersal took in the Local Education Authorities that introduced it besides Ealing (Southall) and Bradford. Blackburn presented a specific case in the ...
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This chapter analyses the different forms that dispersal took in the Local Education Authorities that introduced it besides Ealing (Southall) and Bradford. Blackburn presented a specific case in the sense that multiracial neighbourhoods were often situated near voluntary-aided schools, either Anglican or Roman Catholic. The problem was compounded by the activism of the National Front locally. Huddersfield and Halifax presented more ordinary cases, like West Bromwich, although in Huddersfield and West Bromwich the large proportion of (Anglophone) West Indian pupils made dispersal look more like an anomaly. Halifax put an end to bussing only in 1986–87. In Leicester, it was only the sudden influx of Ugandan Asians in 1972–73 which made the local authorities reluctantly introduce dispersal. In Bristol, the form dispersal took was radically different from elsewhere, and barely deserves the name. Lastly, the local situations of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Smethwick, Hounslow, Luton, Croydon and Dewsbury are presented.Less
This chapter analyses the different forms that dispersal took in the Local Education Authorities that introduced it besides Ealing (Southall) and Bradford. Blackburn presented a specific case in the sense that multiracial neighbourhoods were often situated near voluntary-aided schools, either Anglican or Roman Catholic. The problem was compounded by the activism of the National Front locally. Huddersfield and Halifax presented more ordinary cases, like West Bromwich, although in Huddersfield and West Bromwich the large proportion of (Anglophone) West Indian pupils made dispersal look more like an anomaly. Halifax put an end to bussing only in 1986–87. In Leicester, it was only the sudden influx of Ugandan Asians in 1972–73 which made the local authorities reluctantly introduce dispersal. In Bristol, the form dispersal took was radically different from elsewhere, and barely deserves the name. Lastly, the local situations of Wolverhampton, Walsall, Smethwick, Hounslow, Luton, Croydon and Dewsbury are presented.
