Compares Black and White adolescent females on two dimensions of psychosocial adjustment (self-esteem and educational-vocational expectations) and a global measure of adolescent psychological functioning. Generally, results indicate comparable or better adjustment of Black females than their White peers, satisfaction with themselves, and high…

Presents and discusses enrollment statistics for nine Massachusetts school systems undergoing desegregation. Focuses on Boston, Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, and Cambridge. Describes each system as successfully promoting desegregation through magnet schools and parental choice. (KH)

Reviews the development of magnet schools as an alternative to the politics that accompany other desegregation tactics, and discusses arguments for and against magnets. Focuses on the successful magnet schools of Kankakee, Illinois, a city with a small but socioeconomically diverse population, where desegregation was voluntary and parental…

Describes the use of sociograms and computer analysis of sociometric data in order to evaluate the progress of Springfield, Massachusetts, public schools toward racial integration. Also shows how these techniques can be used to encourage racial integration at the classroom level. (GC)

Studied is a Baltimore, MD, neighborhood where the racial composition altered drastically over a period of 20 years. How Whites who lived through it interpreted that change is described. Why people saw, and now remember, aspects of change and not aspects of continuity are also examined. (RM)

Considers the role of the federal government and the courts in school desegregation. Notes the resegregative effects of White flight to the suburbs resulting from desegregation efforts, and discusses the Reagan administration's apparent retreat from enforcement of desegregation orders, using Denver as an example. (PGD)

Charlotte Hawkins Brown devoted her life to the building of the Palmer Memorial Institute from a small neighborhood elementary school to a high school and junior college for Blacks from across the nation. In addition, Brown became active in interracial organizing, women's club work, and efforts for racial advancement. (Author/GC)

When forecasting the probable effects of a voucher system on the education of poor Blacks, the majority of authors whose writings were examined concurred that the exercise of educational choice would result in more productive and more responsive educational opportunities for the newly empowered impoverished Black family. (Author)

Three specific areas of interest in research on interracial classroom interaction are: (1) interracial friendship patterns and their boundaries; (2) teacher behavior in relation to student race; and (3) the effects of group dynamics on interracial acceptance. (CMJ)

Historical overview considers the role of transportation in education before 1954, when school busing was used to improve education by consolidating rural schools and centralize effort in urban schools, and after the 1954 Supreme Court decision that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal. Different attitudes toward forced busing are…

This case study traces the evolution of race and schooling issues in Oakland, California and assesses why that school district did not opt to desegregate as seemed likely in the 1960s. (Author/MP)

To examine the possibility that teacher variables affect school integration results, this article reviews the literature on minority children and teacher attitudes and behavior. This literature indicates that biased assessments (unfavorable attitudes, qualitatively inferior instructional behavior, and lower expectations) are made of minority or…

Looks at such current remedies as compensatory/remedial instructional programs, pairing and clustering of schools, and magnet schools. Discusses the relationship between the nature of the violation and the kind of remedy required. (IRT)

Biracial learning teams and cross-racial friendships were studied in desegregated junior high schools. Biracial teams received recognition based on the sum of members' scores. Control students studied alone and received individual scores. Experimental students increased more than control students in the number and percentage of cross-racial…

Argues for teaching program which more effectively integrates and promotes understanding of foreign pupils. Reflects upon a Berlin (West Germany) study, Integration of Foreign Pupils in the Comprehensive School, conducted between 1982 and 1986 involving the integration of Turkish school children. Discusses the problems of integration, the role of…