This article describes the cultural characteristics of four elite African American high schools, initiated prior to Brown v. Board of Education, that produced outstanding graduates. Positive school culture characteristics examined were leadership, faculty, curriculum and instruction, student qualities, the environment, and internal and external…

Demographics in the U.S. have changed dramatically over the last three decades. Indiana's demographics are changing, too--albeit less dramatically. To explore how demographic shifts are changing the composition of Indiana's schools, the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP) uses Common Core of Data (CCD) school enrollment data from the…

Summarizes the Indianapolis Public Schools desegregation case, offers an interpretation of its relative significance in the picture of metropolitan schools desegregation, and provides the text of Federal Judge S. Hugh Dillin's ruling, delivered on July 20, 1973. (JM)