The purpose of this report is to draw on the American experience as a guide to policies, research, and experimentation in other countries who belong to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. This review of compensatory education in the United States tries to give some impression of the changing social conditions that were…

This is a survey of research and literature on the racial situation in Britain. The book is arranged into seven chapters which: 1) focus on the history and background of the immigration which has produced a multi-racial society in Britain in the last three decades; 2) provide a general survey of the educational situation of the…

This book advocates that a teacher in a biracial setting examine his own attitudes toward members of other races so that he can develop satisfactory working relationships with them. Many stereotypes and distortions do disappear when black, red, brown, yellow, and white teachers--out of mutual concern for the education of all children--meet and…

This manual has been designed to assist teachers and principals to achieve integrated schools, primary attention being focused on the problems of racial integration--the issues between blacks and whites in the schools. Chapters deal with the following: the meaning of integration and of planning for school change, delineating a six-stage scheme for…

This study, funded by ESEA Title III, has concerned itself with that program's ability to encourage local school authorities to accomplish needed educational reforms and to consider implications for future program activities. Suggestions are included for those concerned with the administration of Title III at the State level. The information upon…

This position paper argues that education should be planned, designed, operationalized, and continuously modified to serve effectively the defined human and educational needs of a rapidly changing world. It focuses on emerging contemporary societal changes impacting learning theory, curriculum, and teaching methodology; and it outlines the…

On January 24, 1973, the city public school system of Memphis, Tennessee, began implementing the initial phase of a court-ordered desegregation, and 65 buses--the first ever used in Memphis--rolled through the city streets. What is the significance of the events of January 24 there? What are the implications for urban school systems elsewhere in…

The contents of this document are organized in six sections. Section one, "Overview," discusses the parameters of the busing controversy. It indicates that the basic issue in the busing debate is racial desegregation in our nation's schools. Section two, "Busing in Perspective," examines the history, scope, and cost of busing; the law and busing;…

Contents of this annual study of the status of desegregation in the Dade County Public Schools include: Introduction; Ten years of desegregation; status of desegregation, September 1969; Tables (Basic Data)--Distribution of racial and ethnic groups, pupils and school employees, Elementary school centers, Secondary school centers, and Special…

This research is basically a search for a model to explain why some districts achieved a higher degree of desegregation than others in their efforts to disestablish the dual system. The population studied consists of all of the school districts in Mississippi, and the unit of analysis was the local school district. Three types of variables were…

For the past several years, much emphasis has been placed on open enrollment plans involving bussing that enable black and white students to attend schools together. The Laboratory School of the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls has been involved in such a program since 1968. As the project developed, the potential for very serious…

In September 1964, students in the three junior high schools of the Berkeley, California community entered segregated eighth, ninth, and tenth grades. Near the end of the first year of the desegregation program, the principal investigator was asked by the School Board to make a survey of the students' attitudes toward the program. Following the…

This study was done at one elementary school in Normandy, Missouri, where the behavior patterns of students in classrooms were changing as the black population increased and teachers were daily being confronted by situations they felt inadequate to cope with. The principal was willing to rank the teachers who were to be involved in the study on a…

A two-year project established to develop a kindergarten-primary curriculum to help all children become aware of significant aspects of Black culture and learn to confront the problems they will face living in an integrated society is presented. The program was designed in four phases. Phase I concerned itself mainly with collecting resources and…

Two questions are examined in this brief for the United States, on petition for a writ of certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit: (1) whether the Austin Independent School District (AISD) has engaged in racial discrimination against its black and Mexican American students, and, (2) whether the Court of Appeals erred…