Chronicles the history of two Ohio Valley school districts. The creation of one black and one predominantly white district is a history of segregation, while the merger of the two 20 years later tells a story of desegregation. Primary and secondary historical data provide accounts from various perspectives of school segregation and desegregation,…

Extensive excerpt from the U.S. District Court ruling on parents' charges that a junior high school in Brooklyn, New York was segregated. In addition to the school board being ordered to prepare a desegregation plan, housing and other municipal authorities were ordered to take steps which would have a favorable impact on school board efforts to…

This booklet contains two papers: (1) "Federal Agencies and Urban Segregation: Steps Toward Coordinated Action," by Gary Orfield; and (2) "Mounting a Concerted Federal Attack on Urban Segregation," by William L. Taylor. In the first paper, racial, economic, and educational trends in urban areas are reviewed. Lack of Federal commitment,…

Failures of school officials in Jefferson County, Kentucky to desegregate their student bodies since 1975 are cited in this report and substantiated with charts and tables. The resegregation, rather than desegregation, of elementary schools in 1977-78 is documented. It is shown that 12 elementary schools have never been in compliance with…

This document comments on the accuracy of findings extracted from the Equality of Educational Opportunity Report, authored by a federally appointed research team headed by James S. Coleman. According to the authors, dificiencies and inconsistencies in the study center around the method of collecting data, the design and validity of the instruments…

This essay attempts to assist the educational administrator with race relations problems. By tracing the legal implications, judicial support for school desegregation is placed in perspective. Potential financial incentives for communities desegregating their school system are then discussed. Illustrations of communities' transportation and school…

In this bibliography 277 works on black education, published principally since 1968, are listed. Some problems in improving educational opportunities for blacks are outlined in the introduction. Trends in the literature and the positions of various writers in the field of black education are also criticized. (GC)

A third of a century ago the schools of the South became the most integrated in the nation, a stunning reversal of a long history of educational apartheid written into the state laws and constitutions of the eleven states of the Confederacy and the six Border states, stretching from Oklahoma to Delaware, all of which had legally imposed de jure…

Investigated whether official school data on the 45 general high schools of Chicago support public fears that the quality of urban high schools is related to their racial balance and that mixed high schools deteriorate as blacks, minorities, and the poor spill into them. (Author/JM)

Using Taeuber's index of dissimilarity" it was found that, although the integration of instructional staff members has substantially increased, the segregation of students has been maintained at a high level, although whether these effects were planned is indeterminable. (Author/JM)

In discussing the racial and class prejudices of teachers and administrators, this article focuses on the views of Mrs. Louise Day Hicks of Boston, as well as on the Rosenthal experiments on teacher expectations. (JW)

Article reports the detailed findings of the Boston METCO study of the effects of busing on black students, and those of several other comparable studies. (RJ)

Attempts to answer the question: Why under the Freedom of Choice plans of school integration did so few black parents decide in favor of integration and then continue to enroll their children in segregated, black public schools? (RJ)