U.s. Urban Public Schools. Postwar Plight Of Racial Co-educational

This thesis studies the issue of racial segregation and integration in the American educational systems of urban public school after World War II. Great importance is attached to the dilemma confronted by racial integration in those schools.The thesis consists of four chapters. The first chapter presents a brief history of the education of the African-Americans and a literature of the research on this topic by the scholars of China and other countries. Chapter two mainly probes the reasons why the education of African-American became salient soon after World War II and analyses the decision and implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. The third chapter deals with the problem of compulsory school busing. Although the prescribed purpose of school bus is to promote the racial integration in schools, yet this measure is opposed by different sides for reasons, especially in Boston, where disastrous consequences are brought about to the process of racial integration in schools. The last chapter examines the reasons, which push the racial integration in schools into dilemma, and gives an analysis for the aftermath of the racial segregation in schools.Undoubtedly much progress has been made on the integration since 1950s. However, racial and ethnic school segregation was intensified throughout the 1990s. It is the whites' discrimination and their migration from urban center that brought about the dilemma. Their migration dampened the urban economy, which worsened the budgets of urban school systems. In addition, the racism deeply rooted in the U.S. society accounted a lot for it, too.It is evident that educational segregation would badly affect the quality of the education, therefore the employment of African-Americans. That is to say, they cannot obtain opportunities in the urban labor market because of their poor education. They are always in a lower economic status because of their low-wage employment. Thus there appears a vicious circle.