You can enhance the following activities from the Instructor's Resource Manual by incorporating the resources available on the World Wide Web.

Desegregation and Educational Opportunity

The Instructor's Resource Manual suggests:

• Identify a desegregated school and invite a panel of students, teachers, and administrators from the school to come to your class to discuss the problems and the opportunities of desegregation that they have experienced. If there are no desegregated schools in your area, contact a school district in another area, and try to arrange for a satellite downlink with personnel from a desegregated school there. If possible, videotape the discussion for future review or use in other classes. In a follow-up essay, answer the question "Has this school achieved integration?" Be sure to include reasons for your position.
• Assign students the task of researching the topic of "segregated education today." They should focus on recent desegregation cases where the courts have ordered an enhanced effort on increasing the academic achievement of predominantly one-race schools.

Some web resources that might help you and your students implement these two suggestions include:

Equity Assistance Centers
The Equity Assistance Centers, associated with the Regional Educational Laboratories, may be able to help you locate desegregated schools in your area.

State Departments of Education
Your state's department of education may be able to direct you to desegregated schools. ERIC provides a handy map-based way to link to all of the state departments of education.

National Association for Neighborhood Schools
This organization opposes racial control of public school assignment, and provides information at its web site on the status of busing and neighborhood schools around the country.

Recent Changes in School Desegregation
This 1998 ERIC Digest summarizes desegregation trends in the 1990s.

Rethinking Schools
The Fall 2001 issue of this publication contains a special report examining recent trends in school desegregation.

Resegregation in American Schools
This 1999 report by Gary Orfield and John T. Yun of the Harvard University Civil Rights Project describes four trends toward increased segregation in American schools.

Desegregation Events

The Instructor's Resource Manual suggests:

• Assign students to create a timeline to report significant dates and events in desegregation. Especially include U.S. Supreme Court rulings. Discuss the cases, the rulings, and the consequences on schools and children.
• Provide small groups of students with a brief scenario of selected key desegregation court cases (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg, Keyes v. School District #1 of Denver, Milliken v. Bradley). Groups should prepare maps for their assigned case that represent the circumstances of the situation prior to litigation. Each group will present its map and provide commentary in their proposed resolution to the case.

You may wish to direct your students to some web sites that can help them get started on these two assignments:

Brown v. Board of Education Tutorial
A short tutorial relating the concerns of Thomas Jefferson to the Supreme Court's ruling against racially segregated schools in Brown v. Board of Education.

Desegregation
The weekly online publication, Education Week, has compiled this "hot topic" summary of information and resources related to school desegregation.

Oyez
This site, maintained at Northwestern University is a multimedia database on the Supreme Court. In the "Cases" area, students can search by title to find summaries of key court cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, Keyes v. School District #1 of Denver, Milliken v. Bradley, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenberg.

Update on Charlotte
Education Week ran this article in 2000 on the most current desegregation ruling in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Bilingual Education

The Instructor's Resource Manual suggests:

• Organize a debate in which students are on teams for or against the following question: "Should schools provide first-language maintenance programs for limited-English-proficient students?" Have students develop arguments for their team's position.
• Assign students to summarize recent research on bilingual education, including the discrepant findings of opponents and proponents.

Here are some sites where student might get a good start on their research for these two assignments:

Bilingual Education
Education Week's "hot topic" summary contains several links that students can follow for more information.

Language Policy Web Site and Emporium
This site, created by a former editor of Education Week, promises to keep visitors up to date on a variety of bilingual education issues.

Journals and Periodicals
This is a linked list of education-related publications, created at the University of Missouri.

Inclusion

The Instructor's Resource Manual suggests:
Have students create an annotated bibliography of articles that suggest instructional strategies appropriate for inclusion classrooms.

Some web sites where students might get started include:

Inclusive Education
The University of Northern Iowa maintains this site to help general education teachers, special education teachers, parents and others learn more about inclusion of students with disabilities.

Inclusion Resource Network
This organization in Canada offers links to many Internet resources on inclusion.

Inclusion: Yours, Mine, Ours
This site is sponsored by a group called the Florida Inclusion Network and offers ideas for including children with special needs in the regular classroom.

Special Education Resources on the Internet (SERI)
The inclusion resources page of SERI will link students to several ideas.