- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Standing at a Crossroads
- School Choice as a Civil Right
- Integration after Parents Involved
- Advancing the Integration Agenda under the Obama Administration and Beyond
- School Racial and Ethnic Composition and Young Children's Cognitive Development
- Southern Graduates of School Desegregation
- Legally Viable Desegregation Strategies
- Regional Coalitions and Educational Policy
- Socioeconomic School Integration
- The Effects of Socioeconomic School Integration Policies on Racial School Desegregation
- Is Class Working?
- Using Geography to Further Racial Integration
- Magnet Schools, MSAP, and New Opportunities to Promote Diversity
- Resource Allocation Post–Parents Involved
- Improving Teaching and Learning in Integrated Schools
- Latinos, Language, and Segregation Options for a More Integrated Future
- Federal Legislation to Promote Metropolitan Approaches to Educational and Housing Opportunity
- Linking Housing and School Integration to Growth Management
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
Using Geography to Further Racial Integration
Using Geography to Further Racial Integration
- Chapter:
- (p.223) Using Geography to Further Racial Integration
- Source:
- Integrating Schools in a Changing Society
- Author(s):
Sheneka Williams
Erica Frankenberg
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
This chapter examine districts' use of “small-scale geography” to promote racial integration. Plans that use variations of geography and population characteristics are implemented in Wake County, North Carolina, and Berkeley, California. This chapter examines how Wake County manages nodes in student assignment, and investigates how Berkeley utilizes more than 440 planning areas in its integration efforts.
Keywords: small-scale geography, racial integration, Wake County, North Carolina, Berkeley, California, student assignment, integration
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Standing at a Crossroads
- School Choice as a Civil Right
- Integration after Parents Involved
- Advancing the Integration Agenda under the Obama Administration and Beyond
- School Racial and Ethnic Composition and Young Children's Cognitive Development
- Southern Graduates of School Desegregation
- Legally Viable Desegregation Strategies
- Regional Coalitions and Educational Policy
- Socioeconomic School Integration
- The Effects of Socioeconomic School Integration Policies on Racial School Desegregation
- Is Class Working?
- Using Geography to Further Racial Integration
- Magnet Schools, MSAP, and New Opportunities to Promote Diversity
- Resource Allocation Post–Parents Involved
- Improving Teaching and Learning in Integrated Schools
- Latinos, Language, and Segregation Options for a More Integrated Future
- Federal Legislation to Promote Metropolitan Approaches to Educational and Housing Opportunity
- Linking Housing and School Integration to Growth Management
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
