The diverse effects of racial discrimination in urban housing markets are discussed in this paper. It also outlines a number of programs and policies that would ameliorate these effects in the short run and would help eradicate racial discrimination and segregation in the long run. The paper's emphasis reflects the opinion that housing market…

This is the fifth annual comprehensive evaluation report of Office of Education administered programs. It updates the information in the FY 1974 report in incorporating the results of 15 evaluation studies completed during FY 1975 as well as additional information obtained from program operations and monitoring activities. In addition to an…

A 2-day institute examined the relationship between two central policy alternatives facing large city school districts: Decentralization and integration. Titles and authors of the 11 major addresses presented at the institute are as follows: (1) "Urban Schools: Issues in Responsiveness and Control," by John H. Fischer; (2) "Children…

This paper summarizes the research conducted for a doctoral thesis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in February 1969. It gauges the effect of the complete desegregation of Chapel Hill schools on its fifth, seventh, and ninth grade students. The achievement scores of those students who attended segregated schools during 1965-66…

The transcribed text of a pre-convention National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) workshop as recorded on tape contains remarks of both Negro and Caucasian discussants on relevancy in the junior college curriculum. Initial discussion centers on the youth crisis, identity, student demonstrations, and "Establishment" values. Black…

This study investigates the attitudes of white seniors toward black Americans in three suburban high schools varying in terms of the possible interaction between black and white students as reflected in each school's racial composition, grouping procedures, and curricular options. The study compared the attitudes of high school seniors in an all…

The study applied the conventional linear transportation program to the student assignment problem and investigated methods of measuring the achieved level of desegregation. Existing measures of desegregation were analyzed, and two new indexes were developed for use in the present model and probably for other system analytical models designed to…

Beginning with the thesis that integrated education is indispensable to achieving an integrated society, the author examines first whether these assumptions behind school desegregation are valid or not, and why: that students will perform better academically, and that more democratic human relations will ensue. He presents evidence to show that…

Studies low-income, Black students who moved with their families to middle income, White suburbs. Interviews students and their mothers concerning premove and postmove experiences. Discusses advantages and problems arising from residential integration. (FMW)

Discusses the use of statistical analysis to identify patterns of discrimination in employment. Analyzes the effects of job segregation on women and minorities at the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. (FMW)

Analyzes the history and outcomes of parent choice and magnet schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Finds that parent choice has resulted in greater interracial exposure than the prior mandatory reassignment plan, and that student achievement has increased. (FMW)

Presents a lesson tracing the legal evolution toward greater justice in U.S. society from 1865-1965 through congressional acts and Supreme Court decisions. Includes student handouts of major civil rights cases, legislation, and background information. Provides a bar graph for evaluating Supreme Court decisions and congressional acts that advance…

In January 1961, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes became the first black students to enter the University of Georgia (Atlanta). Calvin Trillin covered the litigation that resulted in a federal court order that allowed these students to enroll, and then returned just before their graduation to interview the students, their families, friends and…

This document summarizes what was learned from a 3-year Manchester (United Kingdom) project designed to combat racism in higher education and the community. The lessons learned from the study are intended to help other colleges focus on the issue of racism and how it can be tackled openly in a community education context. After some background…

This book explores the racial experience and consciousness of black and white Americans within the context of their lives over the course of 20 years. The subjects of this book, 16 blacks and 12 whites, were interviewed in 1968, again in 1978-79, and for a third time in 1986. They speak in their own words about how their lives unfolded, how their…