A rebuttal of a negative evaluation of busing programs published by David Armor, which focuses on the methodological shortcomings of an investigation of a voluntary busing program in metropolitan Boston called METCO done by Armor. (JM)

Comprised of the text of two letters written by a black student at the previously all-white Washington High School, Chicago. (JM)

A survey among entering freshmen at a large university showed significant differences between Black and White students on various indicators of experiences and attitudes related to interracial contact. Overall, Black students had more exposure to other races than White students and were generally more open toward racial interaction. (Author/MJL)

Asserts that "while national attention tends to be focused on the explosive examples of court-order school desegregation, hundreds of schools are quietly and successfully integrated. In addition, recent research in the State of Illinois points out that large numbers of public schools are integrated without special plans." (Author/JM)

Focuses on the issue of whether the implementation of school desegregation significantly increases the decline in percentage of resident white. Presents data from a study conducted in 86 Northern school districts from a 91-city study. Data were obtained from statistics published by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare beginning in 1967.…

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)

Presents results of a study which investigated the attitudes of a select group of public school teachers toward racial integration of their classrooms and whether such attitudes changed over a period of time. (Author)

Information obtained by combining data collected from a panel of high school sophomores (1966) and seniors (1968) with a recent post-high school follow-up (1972) is used to address the question: Do youth, both whites and blacks, who attend racially desegregated schools, have educational aspirations and expectations which are significantly…

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;…

A member of the Los Angeles board of education describes her experiences in the attempt to enforce school desegregation in the district between 1962 and 1965, discusses the board's "color blind" policy and its resistance to integration efforts, and examines integrationists' limited successes and eventual failure in the desegregation…

Identifies two major problems that impede school desegregation: (1) current strategies are not producing satisfactory results in either student assignment or in the promotion of Blacks to high administrative positions; and (2) many desegregated schools do not live up to the ideals of racial harmony and equal opportunity. Considers possible…

Suggests that from the beginning a central problem with the separate but equal doctrine has been that once separation is assured, the dominant white society rarely feels any need to make even a pretense of equality. (Author/AM)

Last year, 67,000 children in Jefferson County were bussed every day; this year, there was violent and angry opposition to the bussing of a few thousand additional children, the difference being that these children were to be bussed because of court-ordered desegregation of the merged Louisville and Jefferson County school systems. (Author/JM)