Traces the recent history of court decisions on school integration and emphasizes the need to equalize educational opportunities. (Author/RK)

Focuses on the issue of whether the implementation of school desegregation significantly increases the decline in percentage of resident white. Presents data from a study conducted in 86 Northern school districts from a 91-city study. Data were obtained from statistics published by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare beginning in 1967.…

Discusses a case which attempts to address the problems of city-suburban segregation: its significance lies in the uniqueness of the remedy applied to Detroit and in the high probability that this type of remedy, if applicable, would be applicable to other metropolitan areas. (Author/JM)

Presents an overview of recent desegregation litigation. Focuses on cases concerning the scope of judicial authority to order interdistrict remedies; responsibility for financing desegregation efforts; and alternatives to busing. Reports that although negotiated settlements are now being reached more frequently, the end of judicial monitoring is…

Adapted from his memoirs, this article offers a view of the school desegregation case, Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, from the perspective of the Supreme Court chief justice. (LBH)

The purpose of this report is to examine what effect the increase in the number of schools obtaining unitary status has had on the racial balance of schools that were previously under court order. Specifically, the report examines whether levels of integration tend to erode as consent decrees are lifted. To that end, the Commission collected data…

Based principally on data collected for a broader 11-city study of civic capacity in urban education, this report provides an account of the durability of judicially supervised consent decrees in the school reform arena and explains why judicial intervention may be sought and sustained in the 1990s, often in the absence of evidence that schools…

Part of the monthly Staurday Review supplement, "Education in America, sponsored by the Charles F. Kettering Foundation.

This report provides an account of the desegregation process in several southern states. It contains detailed case studies of five southern school districts (Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; Williamsburg County, South Carolina; Clarke County, Georgia; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Hillsborough County, Florida) and shorter profiles of six…

The evidence presented in this study of 113 school districts in the United States from 1964 or earlier to 1975-76 suggests that school desegregation has a disintegrative effect during implementation and an integrative effect in post-implementation years. (Author/AM)

A briefing paper sums up the provisions of a new Federal law that offers support to a range of efforts to deal with racial isolation. (Editor)

Presents the problems of urban education and an outline of school progress in the cities. (RK)

This article explores the twisting and complicated history of school desegregation in Kansas City, Missouri, as an example of how illusive meaningful racial integration was and still is in urban America. The goal of desegregation was difficult to achieve from the beginning, when the school district adopted its initial desegregation plan based on…