Uses new data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to examine the influence of school choice on racial integration, investigating racial breakdowns in schools and classrooms within diverse public and private kindergarten programs. Results indicate that kindergarten students in public schools are slightly more likely to be in integrated…

Massive white resistance to the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown decision encouraged educational administrators and leaders who supported school integration to ally themselves with progressive civic activists. Desegregation thus catalyzed the development of a new, more openly political vision of educational leadership. If schools of education were to…

In this paper four articles on school desegregation and equal educational opportunity are reviewed. The articles, which appeared in the November 1977 issue of "Phi Delta Kappan", deal both with specific community experiences (Boston and Dallas) and with more general issues, such as behavior patterns affecting desegregation and court…

Teachers and principals who were involuntarily reassigned to integrate faculties in the Chicago public schools were surveyed about their transfer experiences. Transferred teachers but not transferred principals believed the reassignments would result in a decline in student achievement. Most transferred staff rated their integration assignment as…

An intercultural culture needs to be established in South Africa's public schools to achieve balance between cultural integration, differentiation, equity, and development in the post-apartheid period. Critical awareness of interculturalism and informed commitment by educators and learners is needed to implement these educational changes. (MMU)

The belief that public schools produce better integration than private schools is deeply held by many people, but unfortunately, it is supported by little empirical evidence. A systematic look at integration is undertaken through a random sample of public and private schools in two cities. A total of 4302 students were observed, 2864 from public…

This progress report describes study objectives, research design, field survey activities, and analysis plans for the evaluation of the Emergency School Assistance Program (ESAP), a federal program to aid local educational agencies in bringing about racial desegregation of their public school systems. A need for evaluation is explained in terms of…

Based on speech presented at the National Policy Conference on Education for Blacks in Washington, D.C., Spring, 1972. (FF)

Sources of information concerning the place busing takes within the framework of the public school desegration problem are listed, some items are annotated. (75 references) (NH)

Describes how Chicago turned six of its elementary schools into language academies featuring voluntary integration, foreign languages as the core curriculum, and high academic standards. Examines achievement scores, parental attitudes toward the schools, methods of teaching foreign languages, and the students' ability to listen. (CT)

Adapted from his memoirs, this article offers a view of the school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, from the perspective of the Supreme Court chief justice. (LBH)