The contents of this anthology of essays on school desegregation focus on such topics as racial balance and quality education, school desegregation as a synonym for racial equality, failure of academic research to be useful, James S. Coleman's desegregation research and policy recommendations, busing plans and how they work, white against white in school integration, school desegregation and the revolt of middle America, the deadly inadvertent bias of television, the courts, the legislature, and the Presidency, and school desegregation policy, ideology, methodology, and national policy in relation to school integration, desegregating urban areas, open enrollment and fiscal incentives, desegregated housing as the ultimate solution, and the reflections on school desegregation by teachers from four cities -- Chicago, Hattiesburg, San Francisco, and Detroit. (Author/JM)