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Peer reviewedWillie, Charles V. – Education and Urban Society, 1991
Controlled choice is a student assignment plan that divides a city into zones within which students may select a school to attend as long as balanced racial ratios are maintained. It is seen as an equitable way of deploying common community educational resources to guarantee student diversity and school improvement. (AF)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Black Students, Educational Improvement, Educational Opportunities
Direct linkMawdsley, Ralph D. – Education and Urban Society, 2004
In May 1954, the Supreme Court handed down its unanimous 9-0 opinion in "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas" ("Brown I," 1954). In holding that de jure segregation in public schools based on race violated the Equal Protection Clause, the Court prepared American society for a larger concept, namely that children in…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Racial Segregation, Public Schools, Equal Protection
