The focus for most school desegregation analysis has been the school district. Segregation among neighborhoods in many school districts is such that if children are assigned to schools in their neighborhoods, they may be segregated in the schools. A problem that arises in analyzing a particular school district is the extent to which neighborhood…

In 1968, the Indianapolis Board of School Commissioners was found guilty of maintaining segregated schools in the district. The history behind and current status of court litigation on this matter are reviewed in this paper. Background information on school segregation in Marion County, Indiana, including a description of the county's racial…

After a Federal court ordered school desegregation in Dallas, Texas, a study was conducted to determine factors influencing black parents' attitudes toward their children's school. Parents who said their children were in racially mixed schools were shown to be far more satisfied than those who said their children were in all black schools. Broad…

THIS BOOK DISCUSSES THE YOUNG NEGRO'S DRIVE TOWARD FULL SOCIAL FREEDOM AND CONJECTURES ABOUT WHAT ITS IMPLICATIONS WILL BE BY 1980 WHEN THE YOUTH OF THE 1960'S WILL BE THE LEADERS IN SOCIETY. THE MATERIAL IS PRESENTED UNDER THE FOLLOWING RUBRICS--THE EMERGENCE OF THE YOUNG NEGRO, RESPONSES TO THE FREEDOM THRUST, REVERSING THE SPIRAL TOWARD…

DATA FROM THE DETROIT GREAT CITIES PROJECT INDICATES AN INCREASE IN STUDENT I.Q. AND ACHIEVEMENT SCORES AND IN PARENT PARTICIPATION AND PRIVATE AGENCY INVOLVEMENT WHERE SPECIALIZED COACHING AND ENRICHMENT PROGRAMING IS TAKING PLACE. NOT KNOWN ARE THE LASTING EFFECTS OF I.Q. AND ACHIEVEMENT INCREASES AND THE DEGREE OF POSITIVE CHANGE IN THE…

COMPULSORY RACIAL SEGREGATION IN BALTIMORE PUBLIC SCHOOLS WAS ABOLISHED AT THE START OF THE FALL SEMESTER IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE SUPREME COURT DECISION OF MAY 1954. THE DESEGREGATION QUESTION WAS SETTLED ENTIRELY BY THE SCHOOL COMMISSIONERS OF BALTIMORE, AN UNPAID, NONPOLITICAL LAY GROUP APPOINTED BY THE MAYOR AND ENDOWED WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF…

PROGRESS WHICH HAS BEEN MADE IN SCHOOL DESEGREGATION SINCE 1954 IS REPORTED. EACH OF 17 SOUTHERN AND BORDER STATES, PLUS THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, IS REPORTED SEPARATELY. THE STATUS OF SEGREGATION-DESEGREGATION IS DISCUSSED IN TERMS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, TEACHERS, INSTITUTES OF HIGHER EDUCATION, FACULTIES, AND SPECIAL SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND, THE DEAF,…

THE AUTHOR TESTED THE HYPOTHESIS THAT THERE IS A NEGATIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEGREE OF SEGREGATION AND THE ASPIRATION LEVEL OF NEGRO STUDENTS. THE STUDY WAS LIMITED TO NEGRO AND WHITE HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS IN A NEW ENGLAND TOWN. ALTHOUGH HER FINDINGS SHOWED THAT NEGRO HIGH SCHOOL JUNIORS DO HAVE LOWER EDUCATIONAL ASPIRATIONS THAN WHITES, THEY…

TESTIMONY WAS PRESENTED BEFORE THE U.S. SUPREME COURT WHICH INDICATED THAT RACIAL SEGREGATION AND DISCRIMINATION DAMAGE THE PERSONALITIES OF ALL CHILDREN. ALTHOUGH THIS TESTIMONY WAS PRESENTED IN REFERENCE TO DE JURE SCHOOL SEGREGATION, IT IS REASONABLE TO ASSUME THAT THE SAME KIND OF DAMAGE IS DONE TO THOSE CHILDREN WHO ATTEND DE FACTO SCHOOLS,…

The 1961 Federal government report "summarizes the historical origins of segregation as well as the major developments in the progress of desegregation of public education." For more up-to-date information on this report, see UD 008112. (NH)

A 1966 report of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights deals with the status of school desegregation standards under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The document reviews the judicial context of the rate and method of desegregation and describes the statement of policies issued by the U.S. Office of Education (OE). Also included are…

A background summary is offered by the St. Louis, Missouri, Board of Education in rebuttal to statements critical of the desegregation policies and practices of the Board and the school administration. The Board has adopted a desegregation program shortly after the 1954 Supreme Court decision. The program adhered to an neighborhood school policy…

Tacoma School District's Exemplary Magnet Program had three main goals as its focus: (1) to increase student achievement in three elementary schools in the District; (2) to maintain or improve the racial-cultural balance in three elementary schools in the District; and, (3) to improve intergroup attitudes and behaviors among students and teachers…

This is a study of school desegregation as it was fought in 91 Northern and Western Cities between 1963 and 1969. In the summer of 1963, the de facto school segregation issue exploded in dozens of Northern cities; in the next 6 years school integration was front page news in most cities. What this book attempts to do in effect is to record a…

This report deals with a workshop type in-service training program in interpersonal relations involving the various categories of school personnel with each other, with area, regional, and/or national consultants, and with the consultative team from the School Improvement Center at the University of Georgia. The program was conducted during a two…