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Author
Publisher
University of Colorado School of Education, Education and the Public Interest Center
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Research findings suggest choice schools and programs are as segregated, and in some instances, more segregated by race and socioeconomic status (SES) than the other schools in their local community. Moreover, many forms of choice also segregate students by ability and achievement levels. The ways that school choice options are designed and implemented result in very little desegregation. The exceptions to this generalization are intradistrict full...
Author
Publisher
University of Colorado, Education and the Public Interest Center
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The primary purpose of this study is to examine how Education Management Organizations (EMOs) appear to affect the segregation or integration of schools by race, economic class, special education status, and language. This is accomplished through examining differences in enrollment patterns between schools operated by EMOs and schools run by their neighboring local districts. Five primary findings were reached: (1) Charter schools operated by EMOs...
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
"In August of 1966, Jim Grimsley entered the sixth grade in the same public school he had attended for the five previous years in his small eastern North Carolina hometown. But he knew that the first day of this school year was going to be different: for the first time he'd be in a classroom with black children ... Now, over forty years later, Grimsley ... revisits that school and those times, remembering his personal reaction to his first real exposure...
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