Background/Context: Perpetuation theory predicts that attending a racially segregated school paves the way for a lifetime of segregated experiences in neighborhoods, schools, and jobs. Research conducted in the 1970s and 1980s linked racial isolation in high schools with later racial isolation in many social settings among African-American…

This article examines how the interdistrict transfer of White students from a majority-Latino school to a majority-White school increased school segregation in a small California town. The article argues that White parents' decisions to transfer their children, coupled with the sending school district's decision to allow the transfers, constituted…

Are most charter schools more racially segregated than traditional public schools (TPS)? How do local circumstances affect the degree to which charter schools are more racially segregated or diverse than TPSs? As the charter school movement in Michigan and nationwide gains popularity, these questions have become important policy issues. In order…

Concludes that current levels of racial residential segregation must be attributed to past actions and attitudes. If governmental policies could cut through the web of discrimination which keeps blacks out of white neighborhoods and could mitigate those racial fears which keep whites out of black neighborhoods, then racial residential segregation…

Describes a study of the achievement of four hundred and fifty first graders in the Gulfport, Mississippi Separate School District in connection with a federally financed project to study the effect of improved Educational conditions. (JM)

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…

A short seven-item questionnaire on interracial attitudes was administered to students attending six predominantly white high schools in suburban and suburban-type school districts in Jackson County, Missouri. The sample included 599 students. Respondents were guaranteed total anonymity. (JM)

Based on a sample of students in 11 public high schools, the article explores the relationship between class racial composition and academic outcomes for Black students under conditions including degree of friendship with Whites and characteristics of Black and White students. Concludes that the impact of interracial contact on academic outcomes…

Discusses her daughter's experiences as a minority white student in the District of Columbia public schools and relates them to national attitudes towards school integration and race relations, as well as to the differences in the conditions under which black and white children are raised. (JM)

THIS ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE GROWTH OF ALL-WHITE PRIVATE SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH WHICH HAS ACCOMPANIED FEDERAL ENFORCEMENT OF SCHOOL INTEGRATION. IT IS REPORTED THAT VIRGINIA, ALABAMA, LOUISIANA, AND MISSISSIPPI PROVIDE TUITION GRANTS, RANGING FROM $185 TO $360 A YEAR, TO WHITE STUDENTS WHO WISH TO ATTEND THESE SCHOOLS. HOWEVER, FEDERAL COURTS…

Describes a study which compared academic achievement of White and Black students who participated in a busing experiment in Peoria (Illinois) public schools. Findings indicated that busing increased not only racial integration but also achievement for both Black and White students. (Author/DB)

In 1972, over 1.3 million white children attended schools in which they were a minority. This document consists of articles addressing this little studied phenomenon. In Gretchen Schafft's article, an anthropological method is employed to study the role of white children in a predominantly black junior high school in Washington, D.C. Jean Le…

THE SIX TABLES IN THIS PRELIMINARY REPORT WERE DERIVED FROM DATA IN A RACIAL AND ETHNIC CENSUS CONDUCTED BY THE NEW YORK STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT. TABLES 1 AND 2 CONTAIN DATA ON THE NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF WHITE, NEGRO, PUERTO RICAN, AND "OTHER" PUBLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ALL SCHOOL DISTRICTS IN THE STATE. TABLES 3 THROUGH 6 PRESENT…