Discusses the implementation of desegregation since Brown v Board of Education, focusing on the practical difficulties and promises associated with helping to make desegregation a reality from its beginnings to today's focus on achieving unitary status in formerly segregated school systems. Discussions include issues of freedom of choice, student…

Examines the history of higher education for African-American Mississippians from the nineteenth century, focusing on the 1987 "Ayers v. Mabus" desegregation case, which charged the maintenance of separate and unequal systems of higher education in Mississippi. Finds that desegregation is a remedy for segregation but not for educational…

Considers the role of social-science research in school desegregation efforts as a background to this collection of written reports, depositions, and testimony in the March 1996 hearings about whether the St. Louis (Missouri) school district had achieved unitary status, having done all it could to eliminate the wrongs of a racially dual school…

Presents analyses that highlight how racial context influences the SAT's ability to predict black students' collegiate success. SAT items are shown to denigrate the black experience and demonstrate a bias toward science. The test's predictive validity is shown to depend on college racial environment, adjustment issues, gender, and black identity…

Examines Black underrepresentation in American science and engineering and barriers to Black participation. Describes programs sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, including Linkages and the Black Churches Project, encouraging science and mathematics programing for Black and other minority students. Reaffirms Black…

Contends that institutionalized Eurocentric curricula constantly reinforce racial and sexual inferiority complexes among people of color and women. Calls for the incorporation of world mathematical and scientific history and knowledge in the curriculum. Describes a radical pedagogy encouraging minority students to feel positive and self-assured…

Examines the dilemma faced by black leaders who accepted delays in the full implementation of Brown v Board of Education to ensure that its mandates would be accomplished through additional litigation. It explores changing policy in school desegregation litigation, desegregation guidelines, new legal statutes and desegregation, and what the future…

Suggests ways to desegregate education programs for the gifted and to redress inequities in gifted education. The usefulness of contemporary definitions of giftedness, theories of intelligence, and assessment practices in identifying gifted students are discussed. Retaining African Americans in gifted programs is also considered. (SLD)

Assesses the legacy of Brown v Board of Education and suggests the role and impact of this ruling on the future of American education and society at large. It concludes with a discussion of the lessons that school officials and advocates of integration and educational equality should keep in mind in their planning for the 21st century. (GR)

Provides a legislative view of the development of the Wisconsin Parental Choice Plan mandated for the city of Milwaukee, placing this initiative in the context of the educational needs of African American children. Argues that legislators must target the complex needs of poor and ethnic minority students in urban schools. (AF)

Reviews experiences of Zimbabwe in implementing education in its first decade of independence, examining cases and effects of educational expansion, and policy dilemmas. New initiatives and a recommitment to current policies are recommended to equalize educational opportunities and provide universal elementary and secondary education. (SLD)

Characteristics of schools that have succeeded in becoming unusually effective for all students include the following: (1) insistence that all participants take responsibility for improvement; (2) persistence in seeking to attain high standards; (3) resiliency in moving forward despite obstacles and discouragements; and (4) consistency in…

Examines the state of multicultural education in the nation's largest public school systems, focusing on components of existing multicultural programs. Representatives of 28 of the country's largest 30 school systems responded to the telephone survey. Multicultural curricula exist in 20 of these school districts. (SLD)

A study evaluating South Carolina's postsecondary enrollment patterns by race and institution estimated enrollment probabilities by races, institutional type, and year during the five years following court-ordered desegregation of public colleges and universities. Findings show evidence of gradual progress toward desegregation in postsecondary…

D. M. Stewart draws no implications for connecting African history and culture to academic achievement. Racism continues to exist; and only education that leads to cultural liberation, political solidarity, and economic strengths will prevail against it. Howard University must see itself as a center for academic and cultural excellence. (SLD)