A description and positive assessment of the history, growth, and development of The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO), a Boston slum to suburb busing program, which is providing a successful option for black urban parents in obtaining a better education for their children. (EH)

A discussion of the confusion and conflict surrounding the meaning of equal educational opportunity today: Does racial equality require desegregation? What is the practical meaning of desegregation--how much is enough? What are the effects of desegregation: Does equal opportunity mean racial mixing or does it mean more equitable school outcome?…

Part of the monthly Saturday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles R. Kettering Foundation.

Author sees phasing out of black colleges as suicidal and suggests instead cooperative programs between predominantly white and black institutions. (HS)

This paper, by the former president of West Virginia State College (WVSC), responds to criticisms that racial integration following the Brown decision has had a negative impact on the quality of the school. Statistics are presented to show that West Virginia State's enrollments were declining seriously at the time of the Brown decision, and that…

THE MAJOR PROBLEM OF THIS PREPARATORY RESEARCH PROGRAM WAS TO ASCERTAIN THE FEASIBILITY OF MAKING A FULL-SCALE STUDY OF THE DYNAMICS OF SCHOOL INTEGRATION CONTROVERSIES IN NEW YORK CITY. METHODS INVOLVED INTERVIEWING AND OBSERVING LEADERS AT CITYWIDE AND NEIGHBORHOOD LEVELS, INCLUDING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, TEACHERS, PARENT…

Article emphasizes greater utilization of the creative leadership of black teachers in multi-racial schools. (Editor/GB)

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

Describes an investigation of the attitudes and problems of upper-grade elementary children when Black and White students began attending the same school. The problems discussed in the paper focus on teacher student relationships, school work, and personal and interpersonal relationships. (Author)

Describes the threatened extinction of Black principalships in the South, and decries the threatened loss of leadership to the Negro community that this implies. (JF)

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)

An executive summary of findings, this is the first volume of the Third Monitoring Report on Boston Public School Desegregation. The report, covering Boston Public Schools operations from December 1983 through May 1984, was filed by the Massachusetts Board of Education and Commissioner of Education under Orders of Disengagement entered at Federal…

Twenty documents discussing the beneficial effects of school desegregation, particularly on black children, and thirteen studies finding desegregation harmful are cited and their major findings and research methods described briefly in this document. Essentially an annotated bibliography, the report concludes by summarizing briefly the results of…