BACKGROUND Commissioned by Congress in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the EEO report
is located at the center of that era's struggle to desegregate America's public schools. Here …

Background By the early 19605, equal educational opportunity was quickly becoming a
major topic of debate nationwide. A provision of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 instructed the …

JAMES S. COLEMAN he Civil Rights Act of 1964 con-tains a section numbered 402, which
went largely unnoticed at the time. This section instructs the Commissioner of Education to …

In light of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education (1954) ruling, this article
focuses on how the majority opinion in Brown set a precedent for the use of social science …

Released on July 4, 1966, in a vain attempt to avoid publicity for what were regarded as
politically intemperate findings, the report was supposed to document what most assumed to …

The research reported here proceeds on the premise that if minority race and its
predominance in particular schools constitutes a disadvantage in the educational system …

Henry Lee Professor of Economics and Professor of Afro-American Studies at Harvard
Universiti, and Research As-sociate, Department of Afro—American Studies at Harvard …

In 1964 a team of researchers led by James Coleman was given the task of assessing'the
lack of equality of educational opportunity among racial and other groups in the United …

Achievement outcomes for US children are overwhelmingly unequal along racial, ethnic,
and class lines. Whether and how schools contribute to educational inequality, however, has …

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Education Next, 2006 NotesFAQContact Us ERIC - Institute of Education Sciences Collection …