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Study Finds That Adams Scholarships Not Likely to Promote College Access in Massachusetts
March 15, 2006
A new study released today by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the Center for the Study of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University finds that the newly-created John and Abigail Adams Scholarship program in Massachusetts is likely to have little impact on college access in the state.
New Harvard Research Shows How the U.S. Department of Education is Changing the Meaning of 'No Child Left Behind' Through Negotiated Deals with States
February 13, 2006
This study reports that Department officials have been approving changes in how states implement NCLB by negotiating changes individually with each state. The authors contend that this process of making compromises with individual states has altered the meaning of accountability since no two states are now subject to the same requirements.
Racial Transformation and the Changing Nature of Segregation
January 12, 2006
Today, in its fourth annual look at the status of Dr. King’s Dream for equity and integration in American Schools, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University releases new findings showing an American educational landscape that is increasingly multiracial yet, simultaneously, separate and unequal.
New Book Discusses Consequences of School Resegregation in the South
September 7, 2005
With more than 70% of Black and Latino students in the South attending predominately minority schools, and with severe segregation and inequality reflected in the extraordinary dropout rates in segregated high schools, new data signal a trend backwards to the 1960s before widespread busing began for desegregation. Even states like Florida, North Carolina and Delaware where stable metropolitan desegregation plans existed for three decades are now rapidly resegregating, according to a new study released by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP).
New From Harvard Education Press: Higher Education and the Color Line
July 8, 2005
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decisions upholding affirmative action, Higher Education and the Color Line outlines the agenda for achieving racial justice in higher education in the next generation. Weaving together current research and a discussion of overarching demographic, legal, and political issues, this comprehensive and timely book focuses on the racial transformation of higher education and the structural barriers that perpetuate racial stratification at the postsecondary level.
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