In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled schools in the United States needed to desegregate and begin integration. The decision was a radical departure from the facilities argument initially presented; it added the issue that the segregation of Black students was having a deleterious effect on their self-concept. Many scholars argue the integration has…

How can teachers and administrators improve the educational environment for Latino/as and other racially stigmatized youth? What does antiracist pedagogy for Latino/a immigrant youth look like? This article describes the thought, action, and reflection employed by a bilingual 9th grade teacher in the Southwest. Antiracist pedagogical strategies…

Suggestions for resolving inequities in single or multiple minority school districts are offered. It is urged that instructionally effective minority schools should be disturbed only to the extent necessary to eliminate discriminatory pupil placement. (MJB)

Racially mixed programs designed to encourage good relationships between black and white students as well as expand their cultural lives are described. (JD)

Teachers should be trained to provide an educational environment encouraging academic and human growth for all students whatever their ethnic background may be. (JD)

In this review of past and present state activities in racial desegregation, it can be seen that--while once states actually legalized or tolerated school segregation--increasingly state agencies can be expected to participate in the efforts to achieve quality, integrated education in the schools. (MJB)

A hypothetical urban school system is described to illustrate a method of response to the issues of equal educational opportunity, desegregation, staff training and retraining, increasing urban costs, emerging power groups, bureaucratic stagnation, decentralization, and student growth. (MB)

Integrated education as it exists in many communities is actually harmful to black children and works to devastate rather than develop black talent; proponents of school integration must put effort into improving the quality of all schools. (JD)

Community preparation for school desegregation is essential for a peaceful, orderly process and improved educational quality. Examples are given of three large cities that faced problems with different attitudes and means of solving these problems. (JD)

Data on successful school desegregation is misleading. Schools claiming to be integrated have been subtly resegregated by manipulation of staffing and financing and by encouraging the attitude that black students do not have the ability for high academic achievement. (JD)