Defines the concept of comprehensive high school, reviews the inadequac

Sources of information concerning the place busing takes within the framework of the public school desegration problem are listed, some items are annotated. (75 references) (NH)

An account of the motivations and implementation of school integration in Shaker Heights, Ohio by the Superintendent of Schools. (JM)

Comprised of an explanatory foreword, expressions of present federal policy, racial distribution in public schools, alternative school policy proposals, and action to date in the 91st Congress. (JM)

Provides an overview of busing and the neighborhood school concept. Argues that educators must push those programs that show the most promise of creating integrated neighborhoods and attracting Whites back to the cities. (Author/IRT)

Reviews major happenings in race relations, desegregation, bussing, and other issues by state. (AM)

Suggests that from the beginning a central problem with the separate but equal doctrine has been that once separation is assured, the dominant white society rarely feels any need to make even a pretense of equality. (Author/AM)

Notes that not all opposition to busing derives from socially, unhealthy, or immoral values and provides alternatives such as fear of sending children into high crime areas. Most Bostonians are said to hate forced busing because of the violence it is spawning. [Available from America, 106 West 56th Street, New York, New York 10019]. (Author/AM)

Charlotte-Mecklenburg, North Carolina, is a metropolitan school district which, in 1969, was ordered by a Federal judge to desegregate its more than 100 schools. Desegregation began in 1970 and continues today. Having found evidence that attitudes among whites toward both busing and desegregation had changed during these years, the author set out…

Among the topics discussed in the testimony before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974 of a member of the United States House of Representatives are the status of amendments to educational legislation restricting the use of busing as an integration method and the concerns of the House Education and Labor…

The majority of variables which have been investigated as potential causes of opposition to busing have not explicitly dealt with attitudes and beliefs about busing and school segregation. The study described in this paper therefore was designed to explore variables dealing with perceived costs and benefits of busing and perceived racial…

In this document several questions about the meaning of court ordered school desegregation in Milwaukee are addressed. Racial and demographic factors and educational policies preceding the 1976 court decision that the Milwaukee schools were illegally segregated are reviewed chronologically. The content of the court decision is discussed. Other…