desegregation busing

(noun)

Programs designed to mix races in public education by busing children from predominantly African-American neighborhoods into white neighborhood schools.

Related Terms

  • Racially-Mixed Classrooms
  • white flight

Examples of desegregation busing in the following topics:

  • Coleman's Study of Between-School Effects in American Education

    • In 1966, the Coleman Report launched a debate about "school effects," desegregation and busing, and cultural bias in standardized tests.
    • Sociologist James Coleman found in later research in 1975 that desegregation busing programs had led to white flight from the higher-class mixed race school districts.
    • It also helped define debates over desegregation, busing, and cultural bias in standardized tests.
    • This latter finding was a catalyst for the implementation of desegregated busing systems, which bused black students from racially segregated neighborhoods to integrated schools.
    • Following up on this conclusion, Coleman found in later research in 1975, that desegregated busing programs had led to white flight from the higher-class, mixed-race school districts.
  • Educational Reform in the U.S.

    • From the 1950s to the 1970s, many of the proposed and implemented reforms in U.S. education stemmed from the Civil Rights Movement and related trends; examples include ending racial segregation and busing for the purpose of desegregation, affirmative action, and banning of school prayer.
    • Educational reforms during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s focused on civil rights, especially desegregation and affirmative action.
  • Urban Gentrification

    • In part, the changing political climate of the 1950s and 1960s produced new civil rights legislation, such as anti-discrimination laws in housing and employment and desegregation laws.
  • Bureaucratization of Schools

    • Even after desegregation, black students faced intense racism in mixed schools, and minority students continue to face institutional racism and discrimination on the level of micro-interactions.
  • Religion and Other Social Factors

    • Further, archival research has revealed that opposition to the Civil Rights Movement - and especially the desegregation of schools - was one of the primary reasons (alongside lesbian/gay movements, women's rights movements, and abortion politics) for the rise of Evangelical movements like the Religious Right (in both politics and American society) in the 1970's and 1980's.
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