Race, and Schooling Diversity and the dilemma of schooling A brief history of school segregation and desegregation

Diversity and Schooling One of the great challenges facing American schools has and continues to be to provide for a school population that is growing in size and becoming increasingly diverse Diversity appeared and continues to appear in many forms: racial/ethnic, class, ability, gender, interest/inclination, sexual orientation

School Segregation: A History During the pre-Civil War period, it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write In the half century following the Civil War Southern blacks fought for access to public education Blacks as the moving force behind public education in the South Free states either excluded blacks or provided segregated public schools

Plessey vs. Ferguson 1896

Brown v. Board of Education Suites against segregated schools in four states Plaintiffs argued that they had been denied protection under the 14th amendment Is assigning children to school on the basis of race constitutional? Use of social science evidence

An ambiguous decision—desegregation or integration James Coleman and his report: Equality of Educational Opportunity and the movement for integration Milliken v. Bradley and the demise of desegregation

Re-segregation Courts sanction a return to neighborhood schools Blacks abandon integration in favor of quality education The impossibility of school desegregation Detroit’s mayoral takeover and the role of race