Two related papers are presented. "Towards Quality in Bilingual Education: Some Things We Must Do," addresses nine specific areas that have been the focus of recent discussion and suggests steps for action. Principles that are basic to establishing criteria for quality bilingual education are suggested. The nine areas are: education…

This study examines the effects of racial composition of a classroom on students' cross-race and same-race friendships. Two "theories" of interracial sociability are discussed. The first argues that interracial friendliness is affected primarily by the number of opportunities students have for cross-race interaction relative to same-race…

Focuses on the issue of whether the implementation of school desegregation significantly increases the decline in percentage of resident white. Presents data from a study conducted in 86 Northern school districts from a 91-city study. Data were obtained from statistics published by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare beginning in 1967.…

The results indicated that administering team rewards to heterogeneous groups of students helped reduce race and sex barriers inhibiting student interaction. The team effect on reducing cross-racial barriers was particularly potent for the helping relationship. (Author/BJG)

Information obtained by combining data collected from a panel of high school sophomores (1966) and seniors (1968) with a recent post-high school follow-up (1972) is used to address the question: Do youth, both whites and blacks, who attend racially desegregated schools, have educational aspirations and expectations which are significantly…

States that studies by Cataldo, Munford, Bosco and Robin, Mercer, and Koponen strongly support a view that massive white flight is an avoidable phenomenon, whereas Colmena, who failed to report any of these studies in his April 1975 paper, represents white flight as an inevitable consequence of mandatory desegregation in the largest cities…

This paper discusses the positive educational impact of the federal courts in Boston on segregation in the Boston school system. Following a bref history of the 1972 case that prompted court action, the paper analyzes the educational changes brought about by the Boston court order to desegregate and the role played by the court in intervention.…

While existing research suggests that schools have only indirect effects on students' racial and political attitudes, the social and demographic characteristics of desegregated classrooms may produce certain normative and behavioral outcomes which encourage children to accept human diversity encountered in concrete situations. This pattern of…

LITERATURE ON SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION OF NEGROES AND WHITES IN THE UNITED STATES IS PRESENTED. THE LITERATURE SURVEYED IS CONFINED TO ARTICLES WHICH APPEARED IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS IN THE PERIOD JANUARY 1, 1951, TO JULY 1, 1956. SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION IN VARIOUS INSTITUTIONAL AREAS INCLUDE INTERRACIAL ACTIVITIES IN SOUTHERN CHURCHES, IN…

The purpose of this study was to design an instrument to measure interpersonal racial attitudes among primary children in segregated and nonsegregated school settings. Subjects were 129 first and second graders enrolled in a lower-middle class all white school, an all Negro slum school, and an integrated lower-middle class school. All received…

This study was conducted to learn whether black educators who had been principals of all-black schools experienced job displacement during the period when schools were being desegregated. Reactive and nonreactive data-collecting techniques were used to gather information on 343 black administrators. The findings indicate that during the…

Cheshire, Connecticut, is currently conducting a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of Project Concern, in which children from the urban ghettos of New Haven are transported daily by bus to area suburban towns. The subjects in this study are 25 minority group children who are presently enrolled in the Cheshire schools for the second year. The…

Discusses some assumptions commonly made about desegregation. Considers the use of selected social science research findings as a basis for far-reaching and significant legal decisions, the aspects of continuing Supreme Court decisions, and the future of desegregation. (Author/RK)

The extent to which blacks and whites interacted socially on school grounds and their attitudes toward each other were ascertained across time during the first semester of an integration program in three southern secondary schools. Several effects on both variables related to race, sex, and grade level are reported. (Author)