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Green, Robert L.; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1972
Public schools are the last hope for an integrated society, and 2-way busing is the last hope for racially balanced schools. (Author)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Court Litigation, Racial Balance, Racial Discrimination
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Koslin, Sandra; And Others – Sociology of Education, 1972
Relationships between classroom racial balance and third graders' interracial attitudes were analyzed. Interracial attitudes were more favorable in balanced than in unbalanced classes. Results suggest that classroom racial balance is strongly related to students' interracial attitudes. (Author)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Peer Acceptance, Peer Relationship, Racial Attitudes
Justin, Neal E. – Intellect, 1972
This essay traces the integration movement, and reports the thought-provoking results from a survey of teachers who were being subjected to racial balancing of faculties and students. (Author)
Descriptors: Bias, Court Litigation, Questionnaires, Racial Attitudes
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Munford, Luther – Social Policy, 1976
Argues that any study which purports to examine tipping must look both at whether or not the community has a racially balanced school system and whether or not the black/white ratios in the community are shifting. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Enrollment Influences, Minority Group Children, Private Schools
American Association of School Administrators, Washington, DC. – 1970
ERIC abstracts on the impact of racial issues on educational administration are compiled that were announced in RIE through November 1969. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "racial integration,""school integration,""integration methods,""integration plans,""racial balance," and "racially balanced schools." The following…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Annotated Bibliographies, Citations (References), Desegregation Methods
Kentucky State Commission on Human Rights, Frankfort. – 1977
This report notes that the Jefferson County, Kentucky, school system has failed to implement the 1975 Court-ordered desegregation plan. Data supplied by the Board of Education and data taken from previous state Human Rights Commission reports demonstrate that Jefferson County schools continue to manifest racial imbalance among students, faculty…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
American School Board Journal, 1987
Progress on school racial desegregation has halted, yet states where segregation was law before 1954 are now more integrated than states that didn't practice racial segregation. Presents results from a study on school segregation in the 1980s. (MD)
Descriptors: Black Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Hispanic Americans, Racial Balance
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Rist, Ray C. – Integrated Education, 1976
Suggests that school systems refrain from policies of token dispersal unless black parents specifically request such a program, and proposes that a small number of predominantly white schools allow integration with larger percentages of minority students. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educationally Disadvantaged, Minority Group Children, Racial Balance
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Boykin, Arsene O. – Journal of Negro Education, 1976
Suggests that one thing that can be done for the United States is to send black, white and other children to the same public school and defends this assertion. The last part of the paper considers whether the bus as a symbol of the position stated can be defended against serious objections. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Community Role, Definitions, Minority Group Children
Sowell, Thomas – 1976
Racial issues such as busing and affirmative action are not supported by most black people despite contrary insinuations by the media. Court ordered busing was not implicit in the 1954 Supreme Court decision which struck down state-imposed segregation. As a result we now have a situation that goes counter to the intent of the original decision.…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Bias, Blacks, Bus Transportation
Thompson, Eugene W.; And Others
Academic achievement of fifth grade students, statistically controlled for the student's socioeconomic status, was studied in relationship to the racial balance of the student's school. Eleven elementary schools were assigned to three categories in which the percentage of students who were black was either 11 to 15, 22 to 24, or 47 to 51%.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Covariance, Black Achievement, Family Characteristics
Ontjes, Robert L. – 1972
A linear programing model and procedures for optimal assignment of students to attendance centers are presented. An example of the use of linear programing for the assignment of students to attendance centers in a particular school district is given. (CK)
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Desegregation Methods, Junior High School Students
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Rossell, Christine H. – Urban Affairs Review, 1995
Examines whether controlled choice is a superior desegregation tool for urban schools. A study of 20 school districts with minority populations above 30% revealed controlled choice to be as unpopular as mandatory reassignments, to produce greater white flight than magnet-voluntary plans, and to offer less interracial exposure than do voluntary…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Enrollment, Ethnic Groups, Magnet Schools
Wilmore, Elaine L. – 1995
This paper describes how a predominantly white elementary school responded to a school-district reorganization effort to promote ethnic balance among the schools. The redistricting plan reassigned some former students to other schools and bused in many Spanish-speaking students. The school staff encountered language problems with the new students…
Descriptors: Busing, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Environment, Elementary Education
Foushee, Ray; Hamilton, Douglas – 1976
In this report the way in which Jefferson County, Kentucky, school officials have conducted integration efforts is documented. Segregation persists in the County. Specifically, 15 of the 16 formerly black elementary schools have retained their racial identity by having black student enrollments which exceeded the desegregation plan guidelines.…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
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