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Spitz, Gina – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2015
This study uses a year of ethnographic fieldwork, over 50 informal ethnographic interviews in a racially diverse neighborhood in Milwaukee, WI, and formal interviews with 30 neighborhood residents, workers, and business owners, to examine how neighborhood residential diversity affects cross-racial interactions there. The study found that, despite…
Descriptors: Racial Segregation, Integration Studies, Neighborhood Integration, Diversity
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McDaniel, R. Dale – Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1975
The problem of complying with federal integration guidelines can be stated as a transportation problem with suitable alterations. This case study demonstrates application of the transportation procedure to school districting under integration guidelines. Data for the analysis were drawn from high school enrollment figures and census data for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Integration Studies, Models, Neighborhood Schools
Wisconsin Univ., Milwaukee. Inst. for Human Relations.
DELEGATES TO THE CONFERENCE REACHED A CONSENSUS ON SEVERAL FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES. PROVISION FOR EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES REQUIRES ACTION AT EVERY LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION, FROM PREKINDERGARTEN TO POST-GRADUATE TRAINING. THE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO ACT IMMEDIATELY AND DECISIVELY TO ELIMINATE DISCRIMINATION AND REMEDY ITS…
Descriptors: Conferences, Educational Improvement, Equal Education, Higher Education
Bennett, David A. – 1978
The Milwaukee School System responded to a court finding of segregation by structuring a program of community involvement to help in the task of planning and implementing school desegregation. The city-wide planning group came to be called the Committee of 100. The central thesis of this paper is that the quality of community involvement is not…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
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Smith, Philip L. – Integrated Education, 1977
The primary objective of this study was to determine if a voluntary school desegregation approach is well received by the public and, if so, to see if this reception is accompanied by a significant amount of voluntary action. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans, Integration Readiness, Integration Studies
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Bednarek, David I. – Integrated Education, 1977
Notes that the schools where desegregation went most smoothly were those where the administrators supported the idea. Desegregation seemed more of a problem in schools where the administration did not like the idea. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Classroom Desegregation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
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Levine, Daniel U.; Eubanks, Eugene E. – 1979
Examined in this study are the characteristics of three elementary magnet schools which have successfully attracted non-minority students to locations in minority neighborhoods. Although some of the characteristics discussed are different for each of the schools described, the characteristics cited as being common to all three are: (1) outstanding…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Education, Enrollment Influences, Individualized Instruction