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Direct linkPeterson, Paul E., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2006
In the 2003 Grutter v. Bollinger University of Michigan Law School affirmative action case, Sandra Day O'Connor declared on behalf of the majority of justices that, "We expect that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary." As this amounts to no less than a mandate that affirmative action for college…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Affirmative Action, Equal Education, Educational Policy
Download full textMcCall, Martha S.; Hauser, Carl; Cronin, John; Kingsbury, G. Gage; Houser, Ronald – Northwest Evaluation Association, 2006
The difference between the academic performance of poor students and wealthier students and between minority students and their non-minority peers is commonly known as the achievement gap. The current study examines the achievement gap using a large sample of students from a wide variety of school districts across the United States. It examines…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, Academic Achievement, School Districts, Reading Achievement
Gallagher, Karen Symms, Ed.; Goodyear, Rodney, Ed.; Brewer, Dominic, Ed.; Rueda, Robert, Ed. – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011
Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual and institutional); and funding levels. Although urban educators have been addressing these issues for decades, placing them under the umbrella of "urban…
Descriptors: African American Students, Urban Schools, Race, Action Research
