In 1966, the Michigan State Board of Education and the Michigan Civil Rights Commission adopted a Joint Policy Statement on Equality of Education Opportunity. As part of this policy statement's implementation, the State Board of Education requested a school racial census, which was taken in the spring of 1967. Data collected on the racial…

The report assesses residential segregation of Asians, Blacks, and Native Americans, and the relationship between their SES and the degree of minority suburbanization. The following results were found: (1) SES and education level are related to residential segregation; (2) as suburbanization increases, segregation decreases; and (3) differences in…

This study compares information about the attitudes of black children in a predominantly black urban community with that from a previous study on Mississippi and Michigan children in which no difference in race attitudes and no relationship between racial attitudes and self-concept were found. The report studies a sample of four- and five-year-old…

As part of the implementation of the Joint Policy Statement on Equality of Educational Opportunity, Michigan's State Board of Education conducted its first public school racial census in the spring of 1967. Information was collected about the racial composition of: (1) student bodies and staff by school building and (2) central office staffs of…

This report provides data concerning the racial/ethnic composition of Michigan's elementary and secondary public school students and staff. The data on students were obtained by asking teachers to estimate the racial/ethnic compositions of their classrooms, utilizing the categories American Indian, black, Asian American, Latino, and white.…