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Carter, David G. – 1978
One premise of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision was that racial injustice could be eliminated through court ordered desegregation. Twenty-three years after Brown I, segregation continues to be one of the most complex issues confronting the country. The failure to distinguish between means (busing school children) and ends…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
Peer reviewedClark, Kenneth – Integrated Education, 1975
In his testimony, before a May 1974 public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the president of the Metropolitan Applied Research Center charges that New York City is operating a segregated school system, a dual school system, of the kind that the Supreme Court "Brown" decision declared to be illegal and…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, City Government, De Jure Segregation, Political Issues
Caplin, Morris D. – J Exp Educ, 1969
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, De Facto Segregation, Disadvantaged Youth
San Diego City Schools, CA. Evaluation Services Dept. – 1981
This report summarizes the results of achievement tests administered in the Spring of 1981 to students in court-identified minority-isolated schools in San Diego, California. An introduction outlines the court order and describes the tests and the participating schools. In 28 of the 36 subject-grade level instances analyzed, student achievement on…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Basic Skills, Compensatory Education, Court Litigation
Pettigrew, Thomas F. – 1979
Three basic reasons commend metropolitan approaches to public school desegregation in urban America. The first of these reasons is widely understood: the racial demography of many of the nation's cities demands a metropolitan perspective on the process. Related to this factor is the second reason: metropolitan approaches deter resegregation.…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Equal Education
Download full textNew York State Education Dept., Albany. – 1967
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…
Descriptors: Black Students, Census Figures, Data, Public Schools
Kantrowitz, Nathan – 1976
This essay addressed the question of to what extent does school segregation and school desegregation policy shape residential segregation. Census data, ethnic segregation, voluntary self-segregation, and attitude surveys are discussed in the residential segregation section. The Wolf and Lebeaux study is critically appraised in reference to school…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Ethnic Groups, Middle Class Parents, Migration Patterns
Fancher, Betsy – 1970
The Southern Regional Council interviewed students in four widely diverse Southern communities, in July of 1970, about their experiences in desegregated schools. The survey objective was to find answers to such urgent questions posed by integration as: whether the students were just a bitter vocal minority, or whether they represented a new wave…
Descriptors: Activism, Black Power, Black Students, Desegregation Effects
Bailey, Stephen K. – 1968
Increasing pressure by state governments to end racial discrimination and defacto school segregation in public schools is predicted. Deeply ingrained American prejudice and Congressional racalcitrance have so far hindered progress in this area and, in fact, schools are more segregated now than they were at the time of the Brown decision. The white…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Colley, Nathaniel S., Jr. – 1971
This paper first traces the history of racial segregation in the California Public Schools, revealing that while the first California constitution provided for a system of common schools, the schools were initially common to white pupils only. The paper then demonstrates that the State has an affirmative duty under the 14th Amendment to end public…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation, De Jure Segregation, Legal Problems
Lowe, Eugene T.; Taylor, William L. – 1977
As a statistical tabulation based on raw data collected by the Office of Civil Rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, this report presents tables of data which illustrate trends in black school segregation from 1970-1974. The statistics provide a detailed profile of the pattern of black enrollment in schools with various…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Students, Educational Discrimination, Minority Group Children
Peer reviewedFalk, William W. – Sociology of Education, 1978
Examines the effect of school desegregation upon the process of students' status attainment by comparing high school students in segregated and desegregated schools. Few differences were found in levels of educational and occupational aspirations or educational attainment. However, marked differences were found in the process of attitude…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Comparative Analysis, Educational Attainment
Peer reviewedWeinberg, Meyer – Integrated Education, 1982
Reports on race, discrimination, and affirmative action issues on selected college and university campuses in approximately 40 states and the District of Columbia. (GC)
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Black Education, Colleges, Higher Education
Wegmann, Robert G. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
A major consideration in these hypotheses is the role of socioeconomic influences in white flight and white "nonentrance." (IRT)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends, Neighborhood Integration, Racial Balance
Rickles, Jordan; Ong, Paul M.; Houston, Doug – 2002
For most children, the racial composition of their neighborhood determines the racial composition of their school. Segregated housing patterns translate into a highly segregated educational system, which can then result in disparities in educational opportunities and an institutionalized mechanism for the reproduction of racial inequality. To…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Elementary Education, Equal Education, Magnet Schools
