The Philadelphia experience very strongly indicates that at least in Philadelphia, and very probably in most large cities in the northeastern U.S., several factors--notably the geographic separation of the races within the city and the existence of a sizable non-public school system (Usually (Usually parochial)--preclude the effective…

Dr. David Armor introduced his paper on "busing" of pupils as busing became the political battleground of American race relations. The paper includes brief descriptions of studies of school desegregation programs in the states of Connecticut, New York, Michigan, and California, together with a more extensive coverage of his own research on a…

This book grew out of an intensive field study of Goldsboro and its school system that aimed at understanding how Goldsboro achieved a farreaching degree of desegregation without disruptive incidents in a system in which whites moved from a position as the majority in their school to a position as the minority. Chapter 1 introduces the study.…

The contents of this anthology of essays on school desegregation focus on such topics as racial balance and quality education, school desegregation as a synonym for racial equality, failure of academic research to be useful, James S. Coleman's desegregation research and policy recommendations, busing plans and how they work, white against white in…

This book is organized in four chapters. Chapter 1, "The Basic Nature of Effective Desegregation," explores exactly what effective desegregation means. Chapters 2-4 set forth a prototype--an idealized version--of the process of achieving effective desegregation in an individual school district. The "model" has four basic parts: (1) A set of…

It is easy to forget the continuous, slow, often difficult path that the May 17, 1954 Brown decision of the Supreme Court has taken and the many small--and often forgotten--problems that have been faced in the past 22 years. Delaware had some warning in 1952 that desegregation might occur and what it might involve. Most school districts received…

This reprint is said to contain some of the most informative and clearest writing yet published on the complex subject of school desegregation. "School Desegregation: The Continuing Challenge", opens with editors' statement. "Not Just One Judge's Opinion: by Roger I. Abrams is a brief legal analysis of a court decision often cited…