Desegregation statistics for Dade County, Florida, are provided in tabular form. A brief history of desegregation in Dade County precedes the data. Tables 1-7 contains the basic data obtained in a survey of the entire school system and include data for both pupils and employees. Table 8 reveals the exact extent of desegregation in each school. In…

This paper uses an anthropological framework to examine the social interactions of black faculty in predominantly white colleges and universities with their white and black colleagues. Joking, formal, and avoidance relations are examined among a regional sample of professors, with particular emphasis on Black Studies faculty. (Author)

In this report, progress made since 1975 in the desegregation of faculty and staff of schools in Jefferson County, Kentucky, is described in light of the Singleton standard. Although overall progress towards teacher and administrator desegregation is evidenced, it is shown that black teachers are still significantly underutilized in the high…

From an educational standpoint, the most serious question that arises from faculty desegregation is the effect that negative or fearful emotional conditions among teachers will have on the children with whom they must work. As part of a larger project to study teacher needs, an investigation was conducted into teacher attitudes towards their…

This report is concerned with 3 major problems. The answers to these problems were obtained from the results of 2 surveys. A. The two most serious problems faced by the cross-over teachers (teachers teaching children who differ racially from themselves) in the sample, in rank order, were: discipline and classroom control; and unfamiliarity with…

This report, compiled by the settlement facilitator, documents progress for year six of the 7-year Bronson Agreement. The agreement was entered into to settle the litigation entitled Mona Bronson, et al. vs. Board of Education of the City of Cincinnati. Its major goals were the following: (1) continuing to reduce racial isolation of students in…

Statistical data on student and faculty desegregation supplied by the Jefferson County (Kentucky) Board of Education for the 1978-79 and 1979-80 school years were analyzed. The number of schools not in compliance with school desegregation guidelines was reduced between 1978-79 and 1979-80. The inclusion of first graders in the desegregation plan…

This chapter focuses on school desegregation litigation and attendant employment-related remedies decreed or rejected by the federal courts. The overarching remedial theory governing relief in school desegregation cases differs from that governing employment discrimination cases in that the central issue is equal educational opportunity, even…

This article focuses upon Federal law in relation to school desegregation. The groundwork for many of the relatively recent legal developments in Northern school desegregation law had been laid more than a decade ago. Because the Southern cases were absorbing black organizational resources and preoccupying the federal authorities, and because…

Racial and ethnic separation and isolation can be countered through significantly increasing the number of minority teachers. Students learn important societal lessons through the example of cooperative interracial and interethnic relationships among teachers. Discusses implications for teacher education, recruitment, assignment, and retention,…

The purpose of the study reported here was to design a model for the development of a human relations program in selected racially mixed public schools. The following efforts were undertaken: (1) an examination of the literature to obtain the rationale for school desegregation, (2) an identification of a national sample of desegregated school…

School integration was accomplished by three major procedures: (1) Faculties at all schools were integrated; (2) Two all-black high schools and two all-black middle schools were closed. Students were provided with free transportation to predominantly white schools; and (3) 27 elementary schools were combined into six clusters, each cluster…

EDUCATIONAL INEQUALITY IN BUFFALO HAS LED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF A PLAN FOR PROGRESSIVE ELIMINATION OF RACIAL IMBALANCE AND PROVISION OF INCREASED EDUCATIONAL QUALITY AND OPPORTUNITIES. CITIZEN OPINIONS, OBTAINED THROUGH INTERVIEWS, RESULTED IN A MODIFICATION OF THE "4-4-4 PLAN" (DIVISION OF GRADES 1-12 INTO THREE SCHOOLS, EACH WITH FOUR…

This is the first of two volumes of the Fourth Monitoring Report on Boston Public School Desegregation, which was filed under court order. The report covers Boston Public School operations from June through November, 1984, and is based upon data collected by Massachusetts Department of Education monitors during that period. Volume I contains an…

This is the second of two volumes of the Fourth Monitoring Report on Boston Public School Desegregation, which was filed under court order. The report covers Boston Public School operations from June through November, 1984, and is based upon data collected by the Massachusetts Department of Education during that period. Ten reports, each covering…