The computer, in the role of high speed calculator, can be a valuable tool in helping district planners evaluate different desegregation alternatives quickly, accurately. (Author)

This report of basic approaches that have worked in successful school desegregation situations contains recommendations of a national conference. The purpose of the conference was to bring together lay and professional school leaders who had experienced desegregation at the school building, school district or state level. At the school building…

This legal case may answer some questions for lawyers on the limits to which desegregation may be carried under the backing of the Brown decision, yet it raises several specific questions that educators and educational researchers ought to address concerning factors that contribute to effective integration. (AM)

Three surveys, conducted at the University of Alabama from its desegregation in 1963 until 1969, permit an assessment of initial changes in the integration attitudes of deep-South university students. Rapidly increasing acceptance of blacks was found in the four major areas examined: general societal areas of conflict, social distance on campus,…

The purpose of this study is to discover the effects of pupil race and racial balance in schools on educational achievement. A brief review of pertinent background factors and related research literature is presented, followed by an explanation of the study itself. Subjects were one hundred and sixty black and white students in the Tacoma,…

The purpose of the study is to provide information concerning the self esteem of blacks and whites under conditions of integrative and segregative simulated work groups. Subjects were 96 undergraduate students, half black and half white, who performed three laboratory tasks. Ziller's self esteem scales were used to measure the self esteem of…

Concludes that while the computer may conceivably assist in desegregation planning, it cannot substitute for carefully considered educational and social policy. Criticisms of the computer plan center on the impoverished educational and social policy behind it. (Author/AM)

Study of desegregation efforts in the Oklahoma Independent School District and residence patterns in the Oklahoma City metropolitan region reveals that desegregated schools do not lead to desegregated housing: there is little if any direct relationship between student assignments and household relocation behavior. (BJV)

Investigates evidence suggesting the presence of post-desegregation discrimination in all 170 Georgia school systems. (Author/AM)

Sociometric questionnaires were administered to all pupils in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades in an elementary school in February 1970, again in June 1970, and again to fifth and sixth grade pupils in February 1971. Results indicate that a relatively low proportion of minority members (black or white) to be most effective in improving…

A sixteen-item sociometric device was administered to 160 children in Grades K-4 in integrated open classrooms. Results show that race is an important factor in determining sociometric choices even if their classrooms are integrated in relatively equal proportions. (Author/SB)

Critically examines James S. Coleman's stated views on public school desegregation and public policy, asserting that the use of empirical research on the effects of desegregation to form policy on the pursuance of integration overlooks the rights blacks have as citizens to integrated public facilities, including schools. (JM)