This article presents statistics and text analyzing the rate of school desegregation in the South and the total rise in Negro enrollment in Southern schools. Information is also given about desegregation at Southern colleges and universities and about teacher desegregation in Southern elementary and secondary schools during the 1966-67 school…

Reports the progress of court ordered desegregation of Mississippi public schools as observed during a week-long trip in Winter, 1969. (JM)

The priority attached to inner-city student desegregation has often become diminished with the onset of mandatory faculty desegregation. Consequently, students tend to be substantially more segregated than teachers in urban schools. Faculties in predominantly minority schools typically have higher turnover and less experience than faculties in…

This is a summary and synthesis of five ethnographic studies of desegregated schools over a period of about two years. It seeks to determine whether the desegregation process in the public schools has resulted in integration. (Desegregation and integration are seen as distinct phenomena, with integration defined as the attaining of, and respect…

The key factor to the de facto inequality typically maintained in America's city school system is found to be the teacher assignment system. Data from 69 cities are examined to determine whether this meant a systematic tendency to assign Black teachers to Black students. Poor and non-white students are kept at least partially segregated, and the…

In the largest district initially placed under court-ordered faculty desegregation. The influences of teacher turnover, experience, and racial isolation on elementary school student achievement in predominantly minority schools were examined. Findings suggest that poorly planned desegregation policies can have undesirable consequences, especially…

This manual was designed for community and school groups to aid them in clarifying their goals and selecting strategies for resolving issues related to school desegregation. After a brief review of the law, Part 1 reviews the major issues involved in the school desegregation process: quality education, white flight, middle-class minority flight,…

The question asked in this study is "What are the processes by which different methods of desegregation affect different types of students on different kinds of outcomes?" This analysis focuses on three different types of outcomes: achievement test scores, college attendance, and reaching the junior year of college. The relationship between school…

This survey included opinions from four groups: 1) EEO Task Force members who had participated in workshops and regular meetings on the elimination of racial isolation in the schools; 2) new teachers assigned in their first year to racially different schools; 3) voluntary transfers (teachers) to such schools; and 4) a random sample of teachers in…

THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS EXCERPTS FROM THE OPINION HANDED DOWN IN THE "HOBSON V. HANSEN" CASE. A SUIT HAD BEEN FILED IN 1966 IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS WHICH CHARGED THAT THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA WAS DISCRIMINATING UNCONSTITUTIONALLY AGAINST NEGROES AND POOR CHILDREN ON BOTH DE JURE AND DE FACTO…

The purpose, procedures, analyses, and results are documented for seven information sources used by Austin (Texas) Independent School District in the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA)/Districtwide Priorities--Systemwide Desegregation Evaluation, 1981-82. The information sources include: (1) Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, (2) Sequential Tests of…

EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY IN BUFFALO HAS LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN FOR PROGRESSIVE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL IMBALANCE AND PROVISION OF INCREASED EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AND OPPORTUNITIES. CITIZEN OPINIONS, OBTAINED THROUGH INTERVIEWS, RESULTED IN A MODIFICATION OF THE "4-4-4 PLAN" (DIVISION OF GRADES 1-12 INTO THREE SCHOOLS, EACH WITH FOUR…

A PROGRAM TO OVERCOME RACIAL AND SOCIAL DIFFERENCES IN SPEECH PATTERNS, READING ABILITY, AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR IS DESCRIBED IN THIS REPORT. COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS LABORATORIES HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED IN NINE HIGH SCHOOLS, INCLUDING SEVERAL INTEGRATED SCHOOLS. LISTENING, SPEAKING, READING, AND WRITING ACTIVITIES ARE FEATURED. INSERVICE TEACHER TRAINING…

This is the first of two volumes of the Fourth Monitoring Report on Boston Public School Desegregation, which was filed under court order. The report covers Boston Public School operations from June through November, 1984, and is based upon data collected by Massachusetts Department of Education monitors during that period. Volume I contains an…

This is the second of two volumes of the Fourth Monitoring Report on Boston Public School Desegregation, which was filed under court order. The report covers Boston Public School operations from June through November, 1984, and is based upon data collected by the Massachusetts Department of Education during that period. Ten reports, each covering…