Recounts starting a Montessori school in the 1960s in New Orleans. Highlights events of import: (1) decision to be nonsectarian and racially integrated; (2) early conflict between teachers and parents on Montessori practices; and (3) physical location problems. (DLH)

The barriers to educational integration in one Mississippi Delta town are identified. Although de facto segregation among students exist throughout the country, in Mississippi Delta many white students attend private academies that do not offer greater educational opportunity than the predominantly Black public schools.

The Controlled Parents' Choice Program in White Plains, New York, successfully combines equity and racial balance concerns with parental opportunity to select a child's elementary school. The program's success hinges on expressed parental preference, guaranteed priority for siblings, residential preference, formal deadlines, a lottery, waiting…

The 50th anniversary of the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision provides a critical opportunity to reflect on "Brown's" importance, impact, and the lessons it provides on achieving racial desegregation and its relationship to the progressive inclusion of students with disabilities into public schools across the United…

This booklet describes the process of desegregation in the Cleveland Public School System. It begins with chronological history of the case of Reed v. Rhodes and other milestones in the desegregation struggle in Cleveland. This is followed by a section describing the Constitutional violations that were cited as causing segregated schools, the…

The many uses and effects of a magnet school are discussed. (LH)

Presents a number of ethnic identity development models proposed by leading investigators in the field of psychology and discusses the models' relevance to Latinos. Describes a variety of dimensions that should be considered in conceptualizing Latino ethnic identity development, such as the process of acculturation, biculturalism, gender, and…

Discusses desegregation of parochial schools, examining the Roman Catholic Church's struggle to reconcile its moral imperative to desegregate its parochial schools with temporal pressures to resist, as documented in the archives of the Catholic Council of Human Relations in New Orleans, Louisiana, home of the largest number of African American…

The work of the Commission on Gender, Race, and Class in Teacher Education Programs is grounded in the belief that it is impossible to make sense of the field of English education without using gender, race, and class as central categories of description and analysis. Rather, gender, race, and class are basic to the study and understanding of the…

Race remains poorly understood and inadequately represented in library and information science (LIS) education. Educators tend to avoid the term "race," preferring the more inclusive "multiculturalism." Yet these terms are far from equivalent: the various dimensions of multiculturalism, including race, ethnicity, class, and gender, have different…

The U.S. Supreme Court provided evidence that its membership had shifted to be more critical of affirmative action as it heard oral arguments last week in two cases involving the race-based assignment of students to public schools. Although the court did not exhibit any desire to reconsider its stand on affirmative action in higher education, the…

Students in communication classes find it useful to study Madonna because she is a fascinating and prolific cultural figure whose merit and intentions are matters of great controversy. As the quintessential music-video star, she is also perhaps the medium's most significant auteur. In the areas of women's roles, motherhood, sexuality, race and…

An executive summary of findings, this is the first volume of the Third Monitoring Report on Boston Public School Desegregation. The report, covering Boston Public Schools operations from December 1983 through May 1984, was filed by the Massachusetts Board of Education and Commissioner of Education under Orders of Disengagement entered at Federal…

The paper reports on the Vanguard Program, (Houston, Texas), an interdisciplinary, multilevel instructional program for gifted and creative children. The program, one component of Houston's Magnet school approach designed to comply with desegregation rulings, developed broadened criteria for identifying gifted minority students. Vanguard has…

The role the student affairs personnel can play to promote a genuine commitment to racially integrating the campus environment is outlined. (Author)