Landmark Supreme Court Cases in Education and their Impact on Equality in American Schools, Quizzes of Introduction to Sociology

Download Landmark Supreme Court Cases in Education and their Impact on Equality in American Schools and more Quizzes Introduction to Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 1896: Plessey V Ferguson DEFINITION 1 ferguson wonseperate but equal okay 7-1 TERM 2 1954: Brown V Board of Education. DEFINITION 2 brown won 9-0 decision of the Warren Court. Established that separate schools were inherently unequal TERM 3 1971: Swan V Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education DEFINITION 3 9-0 charolette won they found it was approporate to bus the children for integration TERM 4 1973: Keyes v School District No. 1 of Denver DEFINITION 4 keyes won 7-1 segregation was ruled unjust TERM 5 1973: San Antonio Independent School District V. Rodriquez DEFINITION 5 san antonio independent school district won 5-4Did Texas' public education finance system violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause by failing to distribute funding equally among its school districts? ( property tax is okay to fund education) TERM 6 1974: Milken V Bradley DEFINITION 6 milliken won 5-4they cant just add in more whites to make it even by busing... so you cant bus students ( no violation no remedy) TERM 7 1978: Regents of University of California v Bakke DEFINITION 7 bakke won 5-4no quota butaffirmativeaction okay cant reserve seats TERM 8 1988 Kadrmas V Dickinson DEFINITION 8 dickonson won 5-4 Poor family claimed that North Dakota statute allow charging a fee for bus riding was unconstitutional. Court said that it was not because it did not require a fee for school and that education was not a right(ok to charge charge fee for bus education was not a right) TERM 9 1991: Board of Education of Oklahoma City Public Schools v Dowell DEFINITION 9 oklahoma board won 5-3court said they could get rid of the desegregation law ( wanted to get rid of law saying they had to because it had been around for so long) TERM 10 1992: Freeman v Pitts DEFINITION 10 freeman won 8-0court had no say unless they failed to comply w desegration plan TERM 21 conflict DEFINITION 21 it creates a middle class bias more for the middle class so they retain power TERM 22 sorting process DEFINITION 22 iq testing what are you really testing TERM 23 great equalizer DEFINITION 23 education TERM 24 polyana hypothesis DEFINITION 24 women believe you are rewarded the more you work more uyoull get TERM 25 social powerlessness DEFINITION 25 well educated women find well education to marry TERM 26 3 methods of combating gender diffrences DEFINITION 26 teacher education - making things moreequaldealing with concerns of women outside classromtitle nine - equal funding women and men ( sports TERM 27 coleman report DEFINITION 27 minority students do worse on tests except for asiansincome level makes biggest impactcirriculm and facilities didnt make as big of diffrencerecomendation was to integrate schoolsjankes said integrating didnt make big of diffrence theres nothing you can do