A review of events, public statements, reports and studies, during the time period September-October, 1974, that reflect various issues dealing with racial and sexual discrimination and school integration in the United States in general as well as a listing by individual state. (EH)

Summary of news excerpts on school integration, court litigation, civil rights, and sex discrimination in the following states: Alabama, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. (RJ)

States that studies by Cataldo, Munford, Bosco and Robin, Mercer, and Koponen strongly support a view that massive white flight is an avoidable phenomenon, whereas Colmena, who failed to report any of these studies in his April 1975 paper, represents white flight as an inevitable consequence of mandatory desegregation in the largest cities…

Lists recent books and journal articles on integration and sociocultural diversity. Includes titles in these areas: history; children; Black women; American scene; Spanish Americans; Indian Americans; other ethnic groups; teachers; Afro-American studies; innovative approaches; higher education; law and government; school and work; community;…

Reviews evidence from research and daily classroom experience that desegregation can be extraordinarily helpful to children of all races; there is no ground for believing that desegregation is designed to benefit black and Chicano but not white children. (JM)

A survey of developments pertinent to school integration and the education of minority group children on both a federal and a state-by-state basis. (JM)

A review of developments on the national and state level, including federal court litigation, the activities of the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justice, rules barring sex discrimination in the nation's schools and colleges, the published Internal Revenue Service proposed guidelines on private school non-discrimination and…

A review on both the Federal level and on a State-by-State basic of the latest and the greatest developments in the field of school integration and race relations embracing the period February- April, 1974. (JM)

This document contains three reports dealing with popular misconceptions about school desegregation. The papers deal with quality education, educator attitudes, and white flight. The first paper focuses on the following questions: (1) How does desegregation affect academic achievement? (2) What is the effect of desegregation on the minority…

This publication reviews research related to the effects of school desegregation on the academic achievement and self-concept of white students, and non-Negro minorities, and on race relations within the community. Separate chapters are devoted to the Riverside School Study, a 5-year school desegregation program with extensive evaluation and…

Four questions are investigated in this paper: (1) How does desegregation affect academic achievement? (2) What is the effect of desegregation on the minority child's self concept and his/her educational and career aspiration? (3) In what ways does desegregation influence the manner in which students of different races get on with one another? (4)…

Research undertaken during the 1970s and early 1980s on the education of poor and minority children and young adults in higher education is evaluated in this book. First, an overview is provided of recent research on the development of education for the Mexican-American and Black communities and a framework is established for the education of…