Court Cases
This 1896 court case established “separate but equal,” ultimately implementing segregated classrooms across the country.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
White school districts get this much more funding compared to non-white schools.
What is $23 million?
This style of learning favored children from wealthy families hurting children of colors’ growth in the classroom.
What is virtual learning?
These nine children sparked national debate over desegregation in the United States by integrating a highschool in Arkansas.
Who are the Little Rock Nine?
African-Americans are most often located in school districts with less qualified teachers.
True
This 1954 court case appealed the use of “separate but equal” within public schools.
What is Brown v Board of Education?
True or False. The average black student attends a school with lower average test scores than white students
True
Over the course of the pandemic, the gap between white and black student’s performance in this subject widened.
What is Mathematics?
Before becoming the nation’s first black supreme court justice, this well known civil rights lawyer led the legal fight against segregation.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
Over 85% of Black students have access to a full range of math and reading courses needed to be prepared for college.
False, only 57% of Black students have access to a full range of math and reading.
This 1968 court case required public schools to make plans for active integration, after Brown v Board was not successful.
What is Green v County School Board?
The majority of K-12 students attend this type of school, urban or suburban.
What is Suburban?
This standardized test which many colleges removed from their application requirements saw a sharp drop in scores from black students throughout the pandemic.
At the age of six, this child paved the way for Civil Rights Action in the South, by becoming the first African American child to desegregate William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana.
In 2015 61% of ACT tested black students passed 0 out of 4 college readiness benchmarks.
True.
This 2008 court case argued that district lines had been drawn to separate urban schools from suburban, and minority students were not receiving the same resources as white students.
What is Sheff v O’Neill?
This number is how much more likely urban students are to be living in poverty than suburban students.
What is twice(or two times) as likely?
This is the effect that COVID-19 had in schools with predominantly black communities who switched to online learning before many other schools and also came back to in-person learning later.
What is the COVID-19 timeline in predominantly black schools.
This is the young girl at the center of the landmark Supreme Court case that declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Who is Linda Brown?
Schools with a student body of 90% colored population spent on average $733 less on each student per year compared to other schools.
True.