Researchers: Beatriz Arias
University Affiliation: Arizona State University
Email: bea@asu.edu
Research Question:
Segregation & desegregation experience of Mexican American students & how desegregation remedies promoted or hindered their access to equal education.
Published: 0
Journal Name or Institutional Affiliation: N/A
Journal Entry: Paper presented at the Sociology of Education Association Conference
Year: 2004
Findings:
- Policies related to desegregation of Latino students in San Jose have shown to be very complex.
- Major societal changes affecting the community context needed to be present before a remedy could be implemented which addresses the educational needs of the plaintiff class.
- Before 1994 only changes in racial isolation were done. Equal educational opportunity remained untouched.