Tangipahoa school board expands attorney's role in dealing with desegregation ... - The Republic
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Tangipahoa school board expands attorney's role in dealing with desegregation ... The Republic The Tangipahoa Parish School Board has voted to give attorney Bob Hammonds an expanded role in dealing with its decades-old desegregation litigation as well as how new state laws affect operations of Louisiana school systems. |
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Macon County pioneers graduate 48 years late - Opelika Auburn News
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Macon County pioneers graduate 48 years late Opelika Auburn News The program was part of a collaborative effort between the multicultural center and Auburn University to preserve the record of desegregation in Macon County. Wyatt did most of the talking as he recounted the experiences both he and Lee faced in the ... |
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Making Schools Work - New York Times
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 The Moral Liberal | Making Schools Work New York Times AMID the ceaseless and cacophonous debates about how to close the achievement gap, we've turned away from one tool that has been shown to work: school desegregation. That strategy, ushered in by the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Desegregation Nostalgia |
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What Can We Learn From School Integration's Successes and Failures? - Huffington Post (blog)
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What Can We Learn From School Integration's Successes and Failures? Huffington Post (blog) Indeed, during the 1970s and 1980s -- the time when desegregation was in full force -- the achievement gap closed faster than it ever has before or since. Why did we abandon such a successful intervention? Kirp writes that "desegregation was too often ... |
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Focus on Better Education Instead - New York Times
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Focus on Better Education Instead New York Times Falling back to 1970s-style desegregation policies like busing ignores new schooling options that weren't available decades ago and which offer better educational opportunities for minority students. Greater access to charter schools is what low-income ... |
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Red Clay must address consequences of resegregation - The News Journal
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Red Clay must address consequences of resegregation The News Journal Delaware has played a national role in desegregation battles such as the Gebhart cases (Bulah and Belton) in which African-American families sued to send their children to white schools in Hockessin and Claymont. The Bulah case (1952) was later ... |
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Pollak, US judge in Philadelphia whose work included key civil rights cases, dies - Washington Post
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 Boston.com | Pollak, US judge in Philadelphia whose work included key civil rights cases, dies Washington Post PHILADELPHIA — Louis H. Pollak, a federal judge who as a young lawyer helped work on the pivotal school-desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, and later served as dean of two Ivy League law schools, has died. He was 89. Pollak, US judge who helped in civil rights, dies |
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