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Ward Randolph, Adah; Robinson, Dwan V. – Urban Education, 2019
This research explores the historical development of African American teacher and principal hiring and placement in Columbus, Ohio, from 1940 to 1980. In 1909, the Columbus Board of Education established Champion Avenue School creating a de facto segregated school to educate the majority of African American children and to employ Black educators.…
Descriptors: African American Teachers, African American Students, African American Community, Urban Areas
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Khalifa, Muhammad; Dunbar, Christopher; Douglasb, Ty-Ron – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2013
Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become a centered conceptual framework to understand American education and reform (Ladson-Billings and Tate 1995; Solorzano and Yosso; 2001; Decuir and Dixon 2004). Indeed, educational leadership scholars have not been far behind in recognizing the explicative and powerful role of CRT studies in their work (Lopez…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Trend Analysis, Educational Trends, Race
Zirkel, Perry A. – Principal Leadership, 2013
Educators and the public believe that it is exceedingly difficult to terminate incompetent teachers because of their legal protections in federal civil rights law, state tenure laws, and--even for states that do not have tenure laws-- the procedural and substantive requirements that are specific to performance evaluation in state and local…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Educational Change, Teacher Effectiveness, Court Litigation
Arrington, Karen McGill; And Others – 1981
This monograph reviews the history and examines the current status of school desegregation with respect to major court decisions and their impact on educational policy. Discussed are the Brown v. Board of Education case of 1954 and subsequent Supreme Court and lower court decisions, busing, involvement of the executive and legislative branches of…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Busing, Community Role, Desegregation Effects
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Cawelti, Gordon – Educational Leadership, 2003
A review of some of the most important educational research of the past 50 years. Re-establishes how noted researchers and their research-based formulations have influenced U.S. Supreme Court decisions; curriculum and instruction; early childhood education; and policies regarding small class size, standards-based reform, and productivity.…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Research, Educational Researchers
Remy, Gwendolyn Mikell – 1979
The effects of the Brown decision on equal education for minority groups in America and the contemporary social context in which the decision is applicable are the subjects of this paper. The author contends that as we have not yet reached the stage in American society where equal opportunity exists and race ceases to be a factor in the…
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, Educational Legislation, Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education