This past June, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court declared integration plans in Louisville and Seattle unconstitutional because of their focus on race as one factor in assigning students to schools. The Court's ruling in the "Parents Involved in Community Schools" v. "Seattle School District No. 1" and…

By the end of fourth grade, African American and Latino students, are two years behind their wealthier, predominantly white peers in reading and math. By eighth grade, they have slipped three years behind, and by 12th grade, the gap is full four years. These are just two examples of the most alarming figures that threaten the educational equity of…

During the past ten years, subtle White northern liberal racism, White backlash, and Black separatism have seriously threatened the gains of the civil rights movement that were triggered by the "Brown" decision. Fortunately, this negative tide is now being reversed. (Author/IRT)

Describes a study of student racial attitudes in a desegregated North Carolina high school. (JF)

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…

Coleman reasserts his position on white flight in answering charges raised against him in the preceeding issue. (IRT)

All children should be taught in face-to-face situations so that each culture can contribute richly to the totality that is America. (Author)

Describes the more interesting findings of a telephone survey of 304 persons in the Milwaukee area, using the 25-item Desegregation Attitude Test. The study demonstrated the persistence of racial prejudice and a higher resistence to desegregation among suburban and less educated respondents. (Author/PGD)

Significant desegregation will occur only when minority group children are immersed in middle class norms and values which will require the reorganization of the education Establishment. (Author)

School desegregation has been a success in the South and a failure nationwide. Gambling major resources on integration will not pay off, but teaching children how to read in place" might. (Author/MF)

Superintendent John Murphy's plan to transform the Charlotte, North Carolina, schools hinged on empowering a panel of 10 distinguished educators to identify the elements of a world-class school system. The larger community contributed by attending separate day-long forums for principals and teachers, parents and concerned citizens, business and…

Reexamines Coleman's research findings that support the theory of white flight. (IRT)

Presents an overview of the problems surrounding racial integration and school busing in Boston. Five conclusions are drawn. (DW)

Since school busing has not desegregated schools, a plan is presented allowing students to transfer with free transportation within a school district. If this plan is not adopted, the need is cited for federal legislation that prohibits compulsory busing from placing a burden on any race. (MD)