The contents of this case study, on the perpetuation of segregation in the American city and a participant's narrative of Los Angeles' 10-year debate and struggle, 70-day trial and court order which was promptly bottled up by appeal, are organized in 13 parts as follows: (1) "The Segregating of the Los Angeles Schools"; (2)…

This compendium of excerpts from Supreme Court decisions concerning education is introduced by an historical narrative relating those decisions both to each other and to important Supreme Court decisions which did not concern education. The cases concerning education are classified here under five headings. One group of cases deals with the impact…

Describes the development of the desegregation plan of the Prince Georges County Public Schools (Maryland), the provisions of the court order used to implement that plan, and the roles of magnet and one-race schools in the program. Implies that suburban communities have greater control over successful school improvement. (FMW)

Despite the efforts of Mexican American groups, such as the League of United Latin American Citizens and the G.I. Forum, and court orders to end segregation, schools in Texas continued to segregate Mexican American children. The political liberalism of these groups kept them from developing effective strategies against segregation. (IS)

Assesses the legacy of Brown v Board of Education and suggests the role and impact of this ruling on the future of American education and society at large. It concludes with a discussion of the lessons that school officials and advocates of integration and educational equality should keep in mind in their planning for the 21st century. (GR)

This paper reviews numerous court cases which have dealt with desegragation and discusses the impact these have had on the educational opportunities of urban, minority children. Particular attention is given to the failure of desegregation efforts to achieve stable racial balances in urban school districts. Attempts by the courts to deal with this…

THE FIRST SECTION OF THIS BOOK ANALYZES FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTE TO WHITE AND NEGRO CHILDREN'S RACIAL ATTITUDES. A SECOND SECTION DISCUSSES HOW PARENTS, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, AND SOCIAL AGENCIES CAN THWART RACIAL PREJUDICES IN THE CHILD. IN AN APPENDIX ARE DISCUSSION OF THE LEGAL BACKGROUND OF VARIOUS SCHOOL DESEGREGATION CASES, THE ROLE OF THE…

A series of instruments designed to elicit a number of cognitive and noncognitive constructs were administered to three groups of ninth-grade students--segregated Negroes, desegregated Negroes, and whites. The Negro students had chosen their school under a freedom-of-choice plan in Kent County, Delaware; i.e., some were going to the local high…

The purpose of this paper is to suggest the utility of an alternate level of data collection for desegregation research. There appears to exist an important disparity between the results generated by a large number of empirical studies and their application to segregation remedy at the classroom, school, and district level. This paper's bias is…

This report is organized into eight parts. Part I introduces and summarizes the report. Part II, "Educational disadvantage and child development," discusses the Nation's disadvantaged children, the preschool years, and children's television. Part III, "Inequality in education," focuses on racial isolation and segregation in public schools, unequal…

This book contains abbreviated accounts of eight community case studies and various reviews of a cluster of recent studies relating to race and education. The foreword discusses three phases of school integration, and the introductory chapter relates law, violence, and civil rights. The eight case studies on Evanston, Berkeley, New Haven,…

Education will become the functioning instrument of a stable democracy by being in all its stages and dimensions an example of the democratic process. Within this framework, the desegregation of our schools can proceed; and with the desegregation of our schools, we can achieve that more difficult stage--the true integration of our schools. The…

The focus of this study on school desegregation is on 43 cities in the following areas: Bibb and Chatham Counties (Ga.); Orange, Duval, Hillsborough, and Pinellas Counties (Fla.); Cado, Quachita, East Baton Rouge, and Orleans Parishes (La.); and, Richland County District Number 1, Florence County District Number 1, and Orangeburg County District…

This document reports the U.S. Supreme Court Opinion on a class action seeking to reverse the exclusion of Negro children from private schools. Title 42, U.S.C. Section 1981, provides in part that "all persons within the jurisdiction of the U.S. shall have the same right in every state...to make and enforce contracts...as is enjoyed by white…

This issue reviews national demographic trends in school segregation, summarizing research findings. Though the national debate on school segregation emphasizes blacks and whites, present-day school segregation includes segregation by socioeconomic level, ethnicity, and native language. The research study examined features of the ecology of…