To effectively improve minority student achievement in metropolitan schools, educational alternatives based on staff development, administrative leadership, increased resources, reorganized school practices, community resources, and new educational environments must be developed. (Author/DW)

Traces some cases of harrassment, intimidation, economic penalty, and physical pain that occurred during the twenty years following 1954 and assesses the accomplishments in race relations and educational progress achieved during the same period. (DW)

This study measures the success of the implementation of a Cooperative Learning Environment program and presents the results of that program as carried out in three elementary schools and two secondary schools in San Diego, by replicating studies conducted elsewhere in the United States. Whereas the earlier studies document the positive effects of…

Results from this small scale sociometric study suggest that after seven years of busing in one Midwest community, friendship across race has not substantially improved. Whether busing produces anything of value is questioned. (AM)

Describing the major developments since January 1974 within the larger 1969-1974 context, this document focuses particular attention to changes in enrollment and faculty composition between the Fall of 1973 and of 1974. Between 1973 and 1974, enrollment of black students increased from 10.7 percent to 11.9 percent of total enrollment in…

This manual has been prepared for the use of program directors who will assume the overall responsibility for planning and conducting the Valleybrook Elementary School-Lakemont High School Simulation Game. The game is created to give professional school personnel and prospective teachers opportunities to come to grips with typical problems of…

The early consequences of compulsory transfer of children from ghetto schools to predominately white schools is discussed. Such a plan was effected when Jones Elementary School, with an 80% black enrollment, was closed and pupils were reassigned to six predominately white receiving schools. Non-transfer students from a racially mixed school and…

Presents interviews with Blacks about past experiences with racial discrimination and the impact of integration and prejudice on their children. Discusses the importance of parental guidance in teaching young Blacks about their cultural heritage and how to cope with prejudice and discrimination. (SA)

Discusses paradigm shifts in racial relations that are redefining existing models and redirecting race relations in U.S. society. The author examines the implications of five dominant and emergent racial paradigms on policy formation and their significance for Asian American Studies. (GR)

Refutes criticisms by L. G. Carr and D. J. Ziegler of the author's predictions concerning mandatory busing in Norfolk, Virginia. Charges that Carr and Ziegler ignored or miscalculated statistical evidence. Concludes that canceling forced busing would have brought White students back to secondary schools, as it did to elementary schools. (SG)

This study used species diversity indices developed in ecology as a measure of socioethnic diversity, and compared them to Coleman's Index of Segregation. The twelve indices were Simpson's Concentration Index ("ell"), Simpson's Index of Diversity, Hurlbert's Probability of Interspecific Encounter (PIE), Simpson's Probability of…

Examined black and white adolescent dating behavior before and after desegregation in a Northeast Texas Community. Questionnaires were administered in segregated high schools in 1964 and the desegregated high school in 1974 (N's are 367 and 432, respectively). Results indicate blacks' dating behavior has changed in direction of whites, while…

This brief digest reviews research findings on achieving racial integration in desegregated magnet schools. Studies show that resegregation tends to occur in most schools after desegregation as a result of tracking and ability grouping; furthermore, as the numbers of blacks rise in a school, the resegregation in classrooms tends to rise. A number…

A study among white college undergraduates investigated the kinds of activities that promote interracial contact, and the extent to which interracial contact in high school determines interracial contact in college. Results indicated that school sponsored activities both in high school and at the university level encourage contact between students…

Several problems regarding the desegregation process can be identified. First, the population shift of urban whites to surrounding suburbs has hindered urban school desegregation and metropolitan desegregation plans have proved politically unsuccessful. Second, the number of black administrators lags far behind the number of black students. In…