Reprint from "State Universities and Black Americans, issued by Southern Education Reporting Service, Atlanta, Ga., 1969 (

While there exists considerable sentiment about the older urban areas of the United States, little empirical work dealing explicitly with the problems of these areas has been done. This study is a preliminary investigation into the use of urban age as an independent variable. Preliminary results indicate that: (1) racial transition is not related…

FIRST THE REPORT DISCUSSES INTELLIGENCE DIFFERENCES, NOT ON A RACIAL BASIS, BUT MORE IN TERMS OF SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL DIFFERENCES. THEN THE REPORT IS DIVIDED INTO THREE SECTIONS, (1) RACIAL DISTRIBUTION, (2) SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL DISTRIBUTION, AND (3) MOBILITY OF CHILDREN IN AND OUT OF THE DISTRICT SINCE THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. TABLES CONTAIN THE…

Racial residential segregation has been a persistent feature of the American housing market. At least three distinct theories have been presented to explain this racial segregation. The "class" theory claims that, due to disproportionate overrepresentation of blacks in lower income classes, they will be overrepresented in lower quality housing…

A second annual report (1966) on the status of school integration in Dade County, Florida, includes data about every school department, and program in the school system as well as administrative and service personnel. The bulk of the document consists of nine tables which summarize the data. (NH)

Data used in this study are based on information collected by the Bureau of Census, which canvassed 52,000 households. About 273,000 three-year-olds, 872,000 four-year-olds, and 2,724,000 five-year-olds were enrolled in preprimary programs in 1967. About 5.4 percent of the 3-year-olds, 15.6 percent of the 4-year-olds, and 45 percent of the…

Although limited in scope, census data still provide the best general indexes of social change in the United States and where comparable categories over time periods exist the data can provide the basis for making decisions relevant to anticipated changes in the future. Changes from rural to urban residence among blacks in various age groups are…

The increase in Black suburbanization during the 1960s and 70s is examined in the context of racial changes in earlier decades. A sample of 1,114 suburbs are examined, and regional differences between the North and South are described. Racial change occurred with greater relative frequency than in previous decades. (Author/VM)

Author, Superintendent of Spartanburg City Schools, Spartanburg, South Carolina, offers examples of innovations supported by the community. (CB)

Attacks the concept of neighborhood schools as being unsuitable to educate in the twenty-first century. Argues that temporary busing is the quickest way to achieve genuine integrated education. (JF)

Discusses the implications of the Weber decision which focus on the Supreme Court's interpretation of racial imbalance and the emphasis of the decision on the private sector. (RLV)

Demonstrates that levels of illegitimacy are related to costs of illegitimacy. Illegitimacy is strongly associated with the opportunity structure for women. When marriage is a relatively temporary guarantee of support, incentives to marital childbearing are less. This is supported by consistently positive association between marital and nonmarital…

Reanalyzes data from the classic 1966 Coleman Report. Addresses whether teacher characteristics, including verbal ability and race, influenced students'"synthetic gain scores." Findings support this hypothesis. Verbal scores mattered equally for black teachers and white teachers. Black teachers were associated with higher gain scores for…

While there are many black athletes in sports, there are few black coaches and athletic administrators. This is true in professional sports and even more obvious in college athletics. The Center for the Study of Sport in Society's Racial Report Card for 1997, which now also covers college athletics, offers statistics illustrating this trend. (MSE)

Examined descriptive data from the Florida Department of Education to analyze the distribution of African Americans in programs for students with mild and moderate mental retardation. African American students were consistently over-represented in such classes, though there was much more equal racial distribution in classes for students with…