Then in September 1958 Governor Faubus closed all the public high schools in Little Rock in what the Supreme Court called an "evasive scheme" to prevent integration. ... County School Board of New Kent County, Virginia, 1968 v/s The court found a "freedom of choice" plan to be inadequate because it failed to achieve desegregated schools and because it placed the burden of eliminating segregation on parents and children rather than on the government which had fostered it. ... By the 1990's, the proportion of black students in majority white schools has decreased by 13 percentage point...

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Education was main priority to the state rather than the federal government, but in 2002 the federal government began to take action. ... Statistics also show that during the 2011-2012 academic year, black students from as early in preschool are faced with harsh discipline than other students" (Rich, 2014). ... One of the nation's largest school systems is New York City who on a average student outcomes and their opportunity to learn are more determined by the neighborhood where a child lives, than his or her abilities. ... Another controversy of the education inequality that New York Cit...

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A short decade later, May 17, 2011 census showed a decline in birth rates for white women and an estimated more than half of the births in the United States to be racial and ethnic minorities. ... Hence, the need is greater than ever for our educators to embrace multicultural learning are. ... More than 7 million people entered this country in the first five years of the 21st century, surpassing the peak decade of immigration in 19101919, when 8.9 million immigrants entered the country (Rong & Preissle. 2009). ...

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