Author Michael Wehmeyer began his career in special education shortly after the passage of the 1975 Education for All Handicapped Children Act (which later became the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA). In those early days, he recounts, students with disability were mostly segregated from other children, and many of the adults…

No Child Left Behind and the Every Student Succeeds Act have made accountability central to conversations about education policy. But neither statute articulates a clear vision of what constitutes "quality" or "equity" in education, nor do they include a mechanism to ensure that schools have sufficient resources to pursue that…

Mexican Americans have a long history in the struggle to end school segregation and achieve educational equality. Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson trace that history through a series of court cases that show how their fight for desegregation both intersects with and differs from the more well-known struggle of Black Americans. In some cases, Mexican…

Sixty-five years after the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, the federal and judicial role in school desegregation has declined. In a more difficult political and legal environment, it has fallen on school districts to develop and implement voluntary integration plans through diversity-minded student assignment…

Today, our schools are more racially segregated than at any time in the last 40 years, mainly because the neighborhoods in which they are located are themselves racially segregated. Yet, the U.S. Supreme Court, in its 2007 Parents Involved ruling, prohibited school districts from implementing even modest race-conscious desegregation plans. If…

Concludes that there are serious problems with the "research" on which Coleman based his conclusions about white flight, that there is only a tenuous connection between Coleman's research results and his antibussing political opinions, and that the episode raises difficult problems concerning the influence of social science on public…

A response to the Young and Bress article also in this issue. (IRT)

Provides a history of desegregation in the Dallas schools, and then presents two views of the district's integration efforts--one from the Anglo perspective and one from the Black/Mexican-American perspective. (IRT)

Unlike the Warren Court, the Burger Court has had a lack of unanimity on school desegregation cases and the court has been divided. As a result there is no clear direction evident in the court's decisions. (IRT)

Court-appointed committees that monitor desegregation plans are an emergent and potentially useful new form of citizen participation on education. The scope of several monitoring committees is outlined. (Author/IRT)

The Detroit decision may encourage federal courts to avoid costly and unpopular student reassignment plans in favor of compensatory education to remedy the effects of past discrimination. (Author/IRT)

To halt "white flight" to the suburbs occurring since a 1969-70 court decision imposed cross-town busing, neighborhood schools should be reinstated. The board's decision was challenged by the United States District Court, upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals (Fourth Circuit), and may become a Supreme Court case. (MLH)

The result, for those seeking a metropolitanwide solution to school desegregation, is that neither Milliken nor the implementation of Gautreaux offers very much hope for the near future. (Author)

School systems anticipating their first year of bussing should marshal their resources for service programs such as desegregation workshops and therapy groups for teachers. (Author/IRT)