Various issues affecting minorities and their education are addressed in the transcripts of this broadcast program. The first speaker focuses on the problems involved in court ordered desegregation, which often includes busing. Among the causes for some of the racial tension surrounding desegregation are the increased enrollment of minorities in…

This article focuses on the use of compulsory busing to achieve school integration. The effects of busing on Black self-concept, academic achievement, student teacher relationships, resegregation of Black students by tracking in integrated schools, and community attitudes are examined. (Author/MC)

Busing is examined as a tool of social change in the alteration of school structure from racial segregation to racial integration. A commentary is provided on the nexus between social change in education and other aspects of society and the utilization of busing as a tool of social change. Information is also presented on schools in urban and…

This booklet is comprised of summaries of contributions to the Eighth National Conference on Equal Educational Opportunity. National Education Association President, George Fischer, expresses views about changing attitudes, cultural differences, Southern school desegregation, busing, and the Nixon administration. Mrs. LaDonna Harris, a Comanche…

METCO is a nonprofit organization that provides screening, placement, and busing services for Negro children (K-12) from predominantly black schools in Boston to predominantly white schools in 16 of the cities and towns surrounding Boston. All of the students, representing a variety of academic, socioeconomic, and family backgrounds, volunteer for…

This study evaluates the effects of busing on the subsequent achievement performance of bused black students. Differences in achievement gains or losses are hypothesized as being both a function of bused students attitudes toward busing and desegregation and of the interracial climate of acceptance in the receiving schools. Findings from data…

Findings of recent studies of school segregation are reviewed in this paper which also tests the idea that school integration is a major cause of white flight from the nation's largest cities. Six major trends in school segregation about which there is agreement, along with three other issues, about which there is less concensus are given and…

This anthology attempts to put the great school bus controversy of the 1970's in perspective by providing a forum in which a series of widely differing views, backed by hard data, can be compared. The first section, "Background and Legal History," places the controversy in a perspective that predates the 1970's. One article focuses on…

Among the guidelines offered for educational policy-relevant research on the effects of school integration on minority student academic achievement are: age at which to desegregate students; school racial composition; ethnic or racial groups to be bused; instruction for non-Black minorities; and the role of social class. (MH)

Described in this paper are the conditions and problems confronting the Jefferson County School District in its desegregation efforts. Taken into consideration is the role Western Kentucky University's Desegregation Training Institute played in helping the Jefferson County System meet and deal with these conditions and problems. The major problem…

This volume records the statements made by individuals at a public hearing on school desegregation in Denver, Colorado. Issues addressed by those at the hearing concern improving the effectiveness of school integration for both minority students and majority students, and include bilingual education, remedial math and reading programs, student…

The history of school desegregation in Prince George's County from 1953-1973 is documented in this report, presenting a detailed chronology and analysis of the forces and figures that affect realization of children's constitutional rights. Chapters include: an overview of Prince George's County, a racial profile of the schools 1953-64, HEW's…

PROJECT CONCERN SEEKS TO DEMONSTRATE THAT THE LOWER ACHIEVEMENT OF DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS IS AN "ARTIFACT" OF A NEGATIVE INTERACTION BETWEEN THE SLUM NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE SLUM SCHOOL. TO COUNTERACT THIS EFFECT, THE PROJECT HAS BUSED OVER 250 INNER CITY MINORITY GROUP CHILDREN, FROM KINDERGARTEN THROUGH FIFTH GRADE, TO FIVE MIDDLE CLASS…

President Nixon's "purpose in this statement is to set forth in detail this Administration's policies on the subject of desegregation of America's elementary and secondary schools." Specific objectives of his statement are noted as follows: to reaffirm his personal belief that the 1954 Brown decision was right in both Constitutional and human…

Summarized are findings of an intensive study of southern white parents' decision to transfer their children from desegregated public schools to essentially segregated private schools (in seven desegregated school districts in the state of Florida, with data drawn from surveys of white parents of school age children in each of the seven…