Class and Race in the Classroom

By jankowka
  • Period: to

    Reform in Education based on Race Class, etc.

  • Brown vs. Board of Education

    Brown vs. Board of Education

    School Segregation is unconstitutional
  • Boycott for de-segregation

    Boycott for de-segregation

  • Little Rock Nine

  • New Curricula with additional resource material

  • Ruby Bridges goes to school

  • Civil Rights Act

  • Clash in Ocean Hill-Brownsville Area of NYC

    African american parents and white teachers clash over the issue of community control of the schools. Teachers go on strike and the community organizes freedom schools while the public schools are closed.

  • Miliken vs. Bradley

    School may not be desegregated across school districts. Legally segragates students of color in ineer-city districts from white students in wealthier white suburban districts.

  • Education for All Handicapped Children Act

    Free education for all students with disabilities

  • Seek alternate forms of education

    As a result of Reagan's reformation, many parents seek aternate forms of education for their students such as charter or private schools.

  • Emphasis on cultural literacy

  • A Nation at Risk

    Conservatives call for increase in rigor in the classroom, longer school years and more difficult standards.

  • Integration is at an all time high

    45% of black student are attending majority white schools.

  • States seek Outcome-Based Education

  • standards-based National Education Goals

  • Prop 187

    Illegal for children of undocumented immigrants to attend public school

  • Outlaw of bilingual education

  • No Child Left Behind