Tag » integration

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  Skilled Dialogue

  1/5/09 - Isaura Barrera, Lucinda Kramer , Equity Alliance at ASU

  Skilled Dialogue© is a relational approach to communication and interactions that stems from the evidence-based premise that three qualities characterize cultural competence: respect, reciprocity, and responsiveness. These three qualities along with the component skills that promote and sustain them (see Figure 1) define the nature of Skilled Dialogue©. When integrated, the qualities and skills generate a framework of guidelines and strategic questions that help ensure culturally competent...

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  Rescuing Brown V. Board of Education: Profiles of twelve school districts pursuing socioeconomic school integration

  1/3/09 - Richard D. Kahlenberg

  The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision to curtail significantly the ability of school districts to integrate by race has shifted attention to a new and growing alternative form of integration based on the socioeconomic status of students. In a report released on June 28, TCF Senior Fellow, Richard D. Kahlenberg examines twelve school systems and finds that when socioeconomic school integration plans are well implemented, they can boost academic achievement and also provide students with a...

• Bridging the gap between academics & athletics

  1/1/98 - Jones, Dianne C.

  A study at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater examined the validity of the stereotypes that student athletes were inferior students, selected easier majors, and did not graduate. A review of grade point averages proved that the student athletes at the university were not academically inferior to the general student population. A tabulation of majors showed that student athletes did not select perceived "easier" majors than the general student body. Furthermore, an analysis of graduation...

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  Historic reversals, accelerating resegregation, and the need for new integration strategies

  1/3/09 - Gary Orfield, Chungmei Lee

  "This new report released by The Civil Rights Project at UCLA finds that for the first time in three decades, the South is in danger of losing its leadership as the nation's most integrated schools. The report examines the effects of the dual processes of racial transformation and resegregation on the educational opportunity of students, as well as the relationship between race and poverty and its implications in light of the recent Supreme Court decisions. The report concludes with...

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  Integrating early childhood mental health consultation with the Pyramid Model

  1/7/09 - Deborah F. Perry , Roxane K. Kaufmann

  " A growing number of states and communities are implementing the Pyramid Model in early care and education settings, and in many of these places there are also early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) programs operating. This policy brief provides an overview of ECMHC, how it can support the implementation of the Pyramid Model and the policy issues that arise when administrators seek to integrate these two approaches at the state and local levels. Mental health consultants can...

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  Integration Defended: Berkeley Unified’s Strategy to Maintain School Diversity

  1/28/09 - Lisa Chavez, Erica Frankenberg

  The Berkeley, California school district has successfully resisted legal restraints to end desegregation efforts and, in the process, provided a possible model for many other districts across the country which want to keep the benefits of integrated schools but must face the limits on voluntary integration plans imposed by the U.S. Supreme Court two years ago.

• Intractable Self-Fulfilling Prophecies Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education

  1/1/04 - Weinstein, Rhona S., Gregory, Anne, Strambler, Michael J.

  The civil rights struggle for equal educational opportunity has yet to be achieved at the start of the 21st century. Inequality persists but problem and remedy are refrained from integrating schools, to ensuring equal access in resegregated settings, to closing the performance gap. As seen through ecological theory (R. S. Weinstein, 2002b), complex, multilayered, and interactive negative self-fulfilling prophecies create or perpetuate educational inequities and unequal outcomes. Society has...

• Mainstreaming Handicapped students: A guide for classroom Teachers

  1/1/84 - Jane B. Schultz; Ann P. Turnbull

  We believe in mainstreaming. Legislative, philosophical, and educational influences have contributed to the implementation of the mainstreaming concept. The major question teachers are posing has changed from why should we integrate handicapped students into our classes? to how can we do a better job integrating handicapped students? The book provides answers to the above questions.

• Why the gap between Black and White performance in school? (Testimony of David James Armor, March 5, 6 & 22, 1996)

  1/1/97 - Armor, David James

  Excerpts and discusses testimony of D. J. Armor, a witness for Missouri in the areas of school desegregation plans and techniques, survey techniques, race relations and attitudes, allocation of resources, statistical analysis, and the relationship between school desegregation and achievement. Armor's responses to an attorney for the state (whose objective was to prove that no segregation remained in any of the state's school systems) are included for testimony about the race and...

• Entre la Espada y la Pared: Critical Educators, Bilingual Education, and Education Reform

  1/1/05 - Olivos, Edward M., Quintana de Valladolid, Carmen E.

  From the perspective of two practitioners who have been influenced by work in the area of critical pedagogy and critical theory, this article examines bilingual education, education reform, and the achievement gap in relation to Latino English Language Learners. The authors integrate personal experiences as they examine underlying assumptions of class, race, and asymmetrical power relations in current education policy and classroom practice. They argue that, despite feelings of being...

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  A Guide for Advancing Family-Centered and Culturally and Linguistically Competent Care

  1/12/09 - Goode, T., Jones, W.

  Family-centered care and cultural and linguistic competence are essential approaches to address the multiple strengths, needs, and preferences of this nation’s families who have children and youth with special health care needs. MCHB convened a meeting to explore ways in which family-centered care and cultural and linguistic competence could be integrated in a more effective manner to support and sustain a community-based system of services that are comprehensive, coordinated, and...

• Accountability in a Postdesegregation Era: The Continuing Significance of Racial Segregation in Florida's Schools

  1/1/04 - Borman, Kathryn M., Eitle, Tamela McNulty, Michael, Deanna, Eitle, David J., Lee, Reginald, Johnson, Larry, Cobb-Roberts, Deirdre, Dorn, Sherman, Shircliffe, Barbara

  In the wake of both the end of court-ordered school desegregation and the growing popularity of accountability as a mechanism to maximize student achievement, the authors explore the association between racial segregation and the percentage of students passing high-stakes tests in Florida's schools. Results suggest that segregation matters in predicting school-level performance on the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test after control for other known and purported predictors of standardized...

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  America's children in brief: Key national indicators of well-being, 2008

  1/14/09 - The Federal Intreragency Forum on Child and Family Statistics,

  Statistical data on children and families collected through the coordination and integration of 22 federal agencies. Indicators are organized into seven sections: Family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health.

• Assessment in I.S.I. program inclusive schooling integration.

  1/1/91 - Dalmau, J., Hatton, G. & Spurway, G.

• At Risk Children in Resegregated Schools: An Analysis of the Achievement Gap

  1/1/03 - Ipka, V. W.

  Historically, political and social forces have strategically converged to directly influence the formulation and implementation of education policies that seek to equalize educational opportunities for members of minority groups. Such has been the case with school desegregation efforts. Since the 1954 Brown Decision, powerful interest groups have sought and secured the assistance of the courts in providing legal support in abandoning desegregation initiatives. Unfortunately, fifty years...

• Beyond Black and White: The Model Minority Myth and the Invisibility of Asian American Students

  1/1/07 - Wing, Jean

  This study of diverse Asian American students at a racially integrated public high school illustrates that the achievement gap is a multi-racial problem that cannot be well understood solely in terms of the trajectories of Black and white students. Asian American students demonstrated a high academic profile on average, but faced difficulties and failure in ways rendered invisible by widespread acceptance of the “Model Minority Myth,” which says that Asians comprise the racial minority...