President Carter has made a strong verbal commitment to civil rights and commendable appointments to important positions, but there has not been uniform implementation of this policy. (Author/EB)

Summarized in this paper is an examination of district segregation, the concentration of racial and ethnic minority group students in individual buildings within Michigan school districts. State, district, and building are used as units of analysis in showing the extent of racial segregation in Michigan public schools. (EB)

Discusses developments on both a national and state-by-state basis, including Supreme Court litigation, recent federal legislation, federal agency regulations, employment opportunities, urban migration patterns, affirmative action suits, the status of Mexican American students at the University of California, integration plans, and others. (JM)

This study suggests that Asian American twelfth grade students possess a more ongoing positive reevaluation of the process of education than do Puerto Rican American twelfth grade students. Puerto Rican students, unlike Asian American students, do not as yet view school achievement as important. (Author/AM)

Studied the impact of court-ordered desegregation on the assignment of minority students to special education courses in Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Dayton, and Toledo schools from 1974 to 1978. Concluded that desegregation had little effect on placement trends, although a disproportionately larger number of Blacks are placed in classes for…

Examines tokenism as a neglected concept in race relations theory; suggests that tokenism is the dominant group's mechanism for accommodating minority group pressure for change, while retaining its dominance; discusses dilemmas of the token role; and describes an ideal of the token role, especially in the university, as a guide for further study.…

Study investigates disparities in per pupil resources at the school and classroom level rather than state and district. Data indicates that intra-school and inter-school (within a district) variations are as large as and in some cases larger than inter-district variation. (Author/AM)

A review on both the Federal level and on a State-by-State basic of the latest and the greatest developments in the field of school integration and race relations embracing the period February- April, 1974. (JM)

Discusses how racial and social conflict are manifested in the struggle for adequate housing and describes the failure of conventional programs to address poverty and neighborhood deterioration in Boston, Massachusetts. Outlines possible solutions for the future. (Author/GC)

This is the transcript of a roundtable discussion among Black and Chicano students at the University of Texas. Topics covered include minority students and faculty recruitment, minority event coverage by the "Daily Texan," and supporting services for minority students at the university. (GC)

Outlines the history of medical education for Blacks in the U.S. from 1850 to the present. Reports recent data on minority group participation in medicine and other health professions, and mentions a number of programs designed to increase such opportunities. (GC)

Notes that the use of private resources, their range, extent, and effect on equal educational opportunity have not been considered during the course of most of the court cases that challenge existing school finance formulas or allocation of instructional resources or for desegregating the public schools. (Author/AM)

As minority-group enrollment grows, the patterns of increasing academic retardation in a school are not fixed: indeed, there are drastic changes in the patterns which cast serious doubt on the prevalent conceptions held by both scholars and practicing professionals. (Author/JM)

Presents a digest, organized nationally and State-by-State, of news items, statistics, study findings, and governmental actions relating to race and sex discrimination in the United States. (KH)

Presented in this article are attitudes expressed by various individuals and actions taken by various states regarding school integration, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, and employment opportunities for minority groups. (EB)