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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If White abandonment of the public system impoverished the public schools that served Clarksdale’s African American majority. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

Still, to those orchestrating the integration process, this first year of limited integration succeeded well enough, and plans were made to send other carefully chosen black students into the elementary and junior high schools in September 1965. Schools in the nations capital were also opened to all (Reprint of New South [Vol.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. The school buildings in the newly added neighborhood became the district’s sixth-grade and ninth-grade schools. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

Ninety-eight percent of Greenville’s 5,300 public school students are black and 94 percent live in poverty. They called it “River City,” singled out half a century ago as a beacon of hope for school integration in the South. Resources are scarce; qualified teachers are hard to recruit and retain. Photo: Jacob Carroll.

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The Boston ‘busing crisis’ was never about busing

Zinn Education Project

A fuller history of Boston’s court-ordered desegregation began decades before Garrity’s decision. A mother of three named Ruth Baston called the NAACP in 1950, shortly after she learned that a White friend’s kids were being taught science in school, but her daughters weren’t. The start of the school year on Sept.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

A spokesperson for the Laramie County School District #1 could only find records of two students who died by suicide at East High school while Brown was enrolled there.). history or a specific take on biology. Ultimately, the bill failed. “If He said kids need more resources.

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The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

The Hechinger Report

Class of 2020 graduate Trevianne Turner, 18, feels a certain tug inside when she looks at the Katrina blight left near her school, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. High School in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. Sometimes I walk or ride by rundown houses or empty lots filled with weeds and I think, ‘There’s a history back there.