In 1954, the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education Topeka (347 U.S. 483) overturned the prevailing doctrine of separate but equal introduced by Plessy v. Ferguson (163 U.S. 537) fifty-eight years prior. By the time Brown was decided, many states had created dual collegiate structures of public education, most of which operated exclusively for Caucasians in one system and African Americans in the other.
Although Brown focused national attention on desegregation in primary and secondary public education, the issue of disestablishing dual systems of public...
In 1954, the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Brown v. Board of Education Topeka (347 U.S. 483) overturned the prevailing doctrine of separa...
Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education. Notwithstanding, there is scant treatment of these key institutions in the research literature. There is a need for a comprehensive and cogent understanding of the primary characteristics of the policies and practices endemic to black colleges. This book provides the scholarly basis requisite to organize, give meaning to, and shape the analyses and applications of policy and practice within the black college. The collected chapters respond to the paucity of research literature addressing these institutions. In each chapter,...
Black colleges are central to the delivery of higher education. Notwithstanding, there is scant treatment of these key institutions in the research...
As different and significant peoples have joined its population, the United States has undergone various conceptions of education its definition, purpose, content, and pedagogy, in primary and secondary schools as well as colleges and universities and education for the twenty-first century will require curricular change. The quest for an inclusive curriculum and the politics involved in that quest is the continuing pursuit of a strategem that both acknowledges and utilizes the racially, ethnically, politically, economically, and linguistically diverse groups, along with the dominant majority,...
As different and significant peoples have joined its population, the United States has undergone various conceptions of education its definition, purp...