Discusses the various Supreme Court decisions that have addressed school desegregation, particularly focusing on Brown versus Board of Education. The author argues that these decisions ultimately have not benefited public schools. (GR)

The relationship between school desegregation and housing desegregation is the subject of this study, which used official census and school district data from the 25 central cities with black populations over 100,000 in 1980. Both school and housing desegregation were measured with the index of dissimilarity. Results show a clear correlation…

The results of a survey conducted on superintendents and principals from eleven southern states are presented in this paper. These educators were asked questions related to time of desegregation, conditions under which desegregation took place, and size of school district. Results indicate that the majority of school districts in the sample…

Summarizes the latest research on segregation within and between districts and on the relationships between desegregation attempts and "white flight." (IRT)

The Ways to Improve Education in Desegregated Schools (WIEDS) project's purpose are to develop an information base of successful desegregation/integration strategies and to construct a set of models and guidelines for use by schools in planning staff development activities. Empirical research literature yields data showing that teacher behavior…

This paper explores the creation, organizational stages, intervention activities, and outcomes of the School Improvement Resource Team (SIRT) in the Buffalo Public Schools (New York) from 1977 to 1980. Intended primarily to defuse tensions during implementation of court ordered desegregation, the SIRT effort serves as an apparently successful…

This book concentrates on the experiences, personal insights, and big events that made up the battle to desegregate the public schools in Boston, Massachusetts. It also gives the historical background of the struggle. In 1965, Massachusetts passed the first state law against de facto segregation, the Racial Imbalance Act. It was not enforced. On…

This new plan is the result of an examination of previous efforts by the State of Maryland to achieve a more representative racial balance in Maryland's public institutions of higher education. It is intended to: (1) eliminate vestiges of former racial dualism in Maryland's public higher education institutions; (2) increase minority and other-race…

This report reviews the first year of integration, under the implementation of the Six-District Plan, of the elementary schools in Springfield, Massachusetts. Through this plan the school department changed the racial composition in five previously imbalanced elementary schools and integrated the elementary school system. Redistricting, the…

Reviews the development of magnet schools as an alternative to the politics that accompany other desegregation tactics, and discusses arguments for and against magnets. Focuses on the successful magnet schools of Kankakee, Illinois, a city with a small but socioeconomically diverse population, where desegregation was voluntary and parental…

By 1970 the schools of the South were less segregated than were those of the North. This is due largely to the great progress in Southern rural districts. Can the same integration take place in Northern urban school districts? Probes the complexities in attempting such action. (Author/RK)

This guide is intended to help public-school educators, policy makers, and others develop a school desegregation plan. The guide presents the basic features of the Controlled Choice Student-Assignment Plan, which was developed to achieve student-body diversity, provide choice regarding one's school of enrollment, and promote school improvement.…

A study, made of how a southern city school system successfully complied with court orders to integrate, found that social change and innovation in school desegregation were directly attributable to the elitist nature of leadership and decision-making in Southern City.'' (Author/JM)

Considers the role of the federal government and the courts in school desegregation. Notes the resegregative effects of White flight to the suburbs resulting from desegregation efforts, and discusses the Reagan administration's apparent retreat from enforcement of desegregation orders, using Denver as an example. (PGD)