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2000 - The Continuing Struggle of African Americans for the Power to Make Real Educational Choices

Attribution: Fuller, Howard
Researchers: Howard Fuller
University Affiliation: Marquette University
Email: howard.fuller@marquette.edu
Research Question:
Studies school choice for African Americans.
Published: 0
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: N/A
Journal Entry: Paper presented at Symposium on Educational Options for African Americans
Year: 2000
Findings:
  • Article discusses the debate about school choice and argues for school choice as the means to expand educational opportunities and improve academic achievement for African Americans.
  • The author uses the Milwaukee school system as an example of the failure of court-ordered desegregation plans to achieve educational parity.
  • He suggests that the desegregation plan–busing–was actually a “forced choice” of greater benefit to whites than Blacks.
  • African American support of vouchers is increasing with their dissatisfaction with public schools—cites the increased participation in the Milwaukee voucher program.
  • Argues for school choice as a more effective method to equalizing educational opportunities than desegregation plans.
Keywords: BusingChoiceDesegregationVouchersRegions: NationalMethodologies: QualitativeResearch Designs: Policy AnalysisAnalysis Methods: Policy Analysis Sampling Frame:Previous Studies
Sampling Types: NonrandomAnalysis Units: DocumentData Types: Qualitative
Data Description:
  • Literature review detailing results from reports of the State of Wisconsin, Department of Public Instruction.
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