This paper examines academic program, course enrollments, and extracurricular memberships in racially and ethnically integrated high schools with the aim of determining the extent of participation by black and white students within schools. The goal of the study was to ascertain whether students are resegregated in schools through these…

This report examines national, state, and metropolitan trends in the desegregation of U.S. public schools, based on federal enrollment statistics. The data indicate that the White majority is declining, and that Hispanic, Asian, American Indian enrollments are growing rapidly. There has been no overall change in Black segregation on a national…

This paper is a review of research studies on the relation of school ethnic and socioeconomic composition to the academic performance of Negro children. Pertinent findings from studies using four different types of research design are reported--(1) studies which measure the performance of a minority group under conditions of either segregation or…

The general perspective suggested by this paper is for the states to capitalize on the "new" educational money made available to them by Federal legislation to adopt a strategy for reforming its schools which includes (1) using the problem of the disadvantaged as the means for initiating widespread reform for all children, and (2) making…

This volume is a study of individual behavior manifested in the desegregation process of 31 Georgia school districts from 1965 to 1974. Major objectives of the study are to glean insight into the variables that determine whether school officials involved would comply with the law and to assess the impact of Federal desegregation guidelines. The…

There is an overwhelming need for individual schools and school systems to take immediate steps toward building good intergroup relations both prior to and during the initial period of school integration. Inasmuch as positive action by school boards and superintendents at all levels is essential and constitutes the first step in school…

A brief biography and a condensation of publications and speeches by Dr. James E. Allen, Jr., are outlined in this document. The form and purpose of higher education, the effectiveness of the school system, and the goals of educational policy are covered. Narrowing the scope considerably, problem areas such as the church-state issue, school…

A discussion of the dilemma of desegregation/resegregation requires discussion of the demands of a changing urban society, open housing, efficient mass transit systems, the court rulings which too often have become substitutes for our own decisions and initiatives but which have set out steps in the right direction, and what we can do about it. A…

This paper focuses on the political nature of the present busing controversy. It is felt that the proposed moratorium on busing threatens gains which have been made in previous years through institutional and judicial enforcement of the Civil Rights Act in providing equal educational opportunities to all children. The advantages and disadvantages…

This is a report on the failure of the desegregation plan adopted by the Louisville Board of Education in 1956 but never modified to meet changing conditions. The analysis, by staff members of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, is based on statistical data supplied by the Board of Education for the years 1955 through 1971. Findings include…

IN REVIEWING THE PROGRESS REPORT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION COMMISSION ON SCHOOL INTEGRATION, THE HARLEM PARENTS COMMITTEE, WHICH FEELS THAT A RACIALLY INTEGRATED SCHOOL IS NECESSARY FOR QUALITY EDUCATION, FINDS THAT THE COMMISSION'S RECOMMENDATIONS HAVE NOT BEEN CARRIED OUT ADEQUATELY. THE BOARD'S PROGRAMS TO DEVELOP QUALITY EDUCATION ARE STILL…

This summary report examines ability grouping and its possible use for in-school segregation in the North Carolina public schools. The report describes the development of concerns among minority parents about the placement of minority children in special education and low-ability classes and the investigation into the issue by a forum of six…

THIS REVIEW OF THE STATUS OF THE EDUCATION OF THE AMERICAN NEGRO POINTS OUT THAT HISTORICALLY HIS SCHOOLING AND EDUCATION HAVE BEEN SHAPED BY FORCES OVER WHICH HE HAS HAD VERY LITTLE CONTROL. THE REVIEW DESCRIBES THE NEGRO'S MODEST EDUCATIONAL BEGINNINGS DURING THE COLONIAL PERIOD (PRIMARILY DEVOTED TO RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION) AND PRE- AND…

This report on an Institute for school administrators in Buffalo, New York, focuses on the problems of urban school administration. The Institute was held during the summer of 1967 at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The State University, the Buffalo Public Schools, and several suburban schools came together in order to enhance the…

The report's facts and conclusions come from the eight major studies of Southern school desegregation completed by the Commission between 1959 and September 1969, the Commission's 1968 hearing in Montgomery, Alabama, the hundreds of complaints received involving school desegregation (which are completely listed in Appendix B), and data supplied by…