This report misrepresents and then criticizes recommendations from the Minnesota Department of Education, a think tank and two independent study groups, each of which recently encouraged particular voluntary efforts to reduce concentrated poverty and achieve racial and socioeconomic integration in schools and housing in Minnesota. In building its…

Following desegregation, blacks were more likely to perceive the existence of racial separation in various contexts than were whites. Among whites, interracial contact produced more favorable evaluations. (Author/JB)

Court cases dealing with school desegregation have become increasingly complex over the years. The major portion of this paper highlights six of those cases, which provide a picture of the shifting positions of the federal judiciary on the subject. The purpose of the discussion is to allow school administrators to incorporate the current law into…

In a factory city that responded explosively to bused integration, author finds the system working and the children happy." (Editor)

Presents an overview of the problems surrounding racial integration and school busing in Boston. Five conclusions are drawn. (DW)

Like the U.S., Germany is finding it difficult to integrate ethnic minorities into its society. The resulting "social erosion" is most apparent in German schools. (WD)

Reviews four prominent books on the subject of busing Blacks and Whites. Describes the rationale behind school integration as being the promotion of educational equality and the provision of interracial contact. Questions whether society has accomplished its goals for equality and calls for more research on the subject of the history of school…

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)

Article illustrates the inferior image the black child produces in our elementary schools and the victimization suffered by the parents of black children. Stresses the crucial parent-child-teacher relationship and the need to return to basic skills in the classroom. (RK)

The notion that public schools are a powerful engine of social reform is central to the ideologies of compensatory education and racially balanced schools as means for achieving integration. Today, all questions of property, income, and occupational distribution are seen to be answered by increased access to meritocratic competition. (DE)

Because of changing concepts of equal and effective education and challenges to traditional assumptions of the desirability of integration and racial mixing, there is now much uncertainty as to the meaning of the Brown decision, especially in Northern cities. (EH)

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…

This report consists of seven papers by experts on integration, segregation, and separatism in education. The articles, expressing divergent opinions, include four presentations on inner-city education, two papers on Black Studies at the college level, and one paper on the "new" urban university. Authors and titles of the presentations are: Paul…

Discusses the second post-Brown decade, with changes that the period 1964-1974 worked in federal antidiscrimination laws - in extending their reach, in devising new techniques to enforce them, and in interpreting the obligations they impose. (Author/PG)