Transcript Race and Schooling

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