Exam 12: Providing Equal Educational Opportunity

What are the differences between de facto segregation and de jure segregation?

A four-year-old disadvantaged child living in the inner city would probably be eligible for

Compensatory education is best described as a variety of attempts to

The purpose of Title I is to

In big cities, an underlying cause of many segregation problems has been _____________.

School districts were required to implement many programs to accomplish desegregation over the years.Some are simple; others are complex.Each plan had its relative advantages.Identify several of these desegregation plans, and discuss their characteristics and advantages.

Ken, a school board member in a segregated district, chairs a committee that is planning a voluntary desegregation strategy for a portion of his district.Which of the following plans would be most appropriate for his committee to consider?

In Brown v.Board of Education, the U.S.Supreme Court ruled that

In what ways did white citizens delay implementation of the U.S.Supreme Court ruling in Brown v.Topeka Board of Education?

_____________ required the use of separate public facilities and services for African Americans.

The addition of a large Asian American population to big-city schools has caused districts with desegregation plans to

What steps were taken to rectify the poor record of compensatory programs after a decade of implementation?

Pullout classes have been relatively ineffective because they