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The Contributions of School Desegregation to Housing Integration: Case Studies in Two Large Urban Areas
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Mitchell, Douglas E.; Batie, Michael; Mitchell, Ross E. – Urban Education, 2010
This article examines a half century of housing and school segregation data in two large California school districts. Based on a review of both the methods and the substantive data available tracking the relationship between school and housing integration, the study reported here shows that very substantial school-level integration in these two…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, School Segregation, Housing, Urban Areas
Political Ideology and School Board Politics
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Mitchell, Douglas E.; Badarak, Gary W. – Urban Education, 1977
Reviews the meaning of "political ideology" in political science, reviews findings from the literature on local school districts, discusses implicit assumptions about political ideology made by these studies, and presents findings from a study of political ideologies among a sample of school board members, lay citizens, and professional educators.…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Community Surveys, Educational Policy, Policy Formation
Ideology and Public School Policy-Making
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Mitchell, Douglas E. – Urban Education, 1974
This study located significant patterns within the thought systems of sixty-three influential leaders in three southern California school districts and discussed the implications for school policy. (Author/SF)
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Educational Philosophy, School Attitudes, School Policy
Episodic Instability in School District Elections.
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Criswell, Larry W.; Mitchell, Douglas E. – Urban Education, 1980
Presents data from four California districts supporting the Iannaconne/Lutz theory that democratic control of school district policy occurs through episodic voter dissatisfaction leading to incumbent defeat and changes in school administration. Further asserts that the typical length of a change episode extends for as many as four successive…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Board Candidates, Board of Education Policy, Community Attitudes