Several Supreme Court decisions in the 1970s have rejected constitutional arguments aimed at eliminating exclusionary zoning and growth management schemes which allegedly maintain existing problems of racial and income segregation in major metropolitan areas. These decisions have led observers to conclude that the Supreme Court has greatly…

IN CHOOSING BETWEEN SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AND SEGREGATED COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, POLICY MAKERS MUST CONSIDER THE CAUSES OF THE EDUCATIONAL RETARDATION OF NEGRO YOUTH AND THE SOCIAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND FISCAL COSTS OF EACH POLICY. RESEARCH HAS SHOWN SOCIAL CLASS AND THE RACIAL COMPOSITION OF THE SCHOOLS RATHER THAN "CULTURAL DEPRIVATION"…

THIS PROJECT IN THE OAK RIDGE SCHOOLS WAS DESIGNED TO IMPROVE THE LANGUAGE ARTS AND READING PROGRAMS FOR NEGRO STUDENTS AT A RACIALLY SEGREGATED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. IT ATTEMPTED TO PREPARE THESE STUDENTS FOR SUCCESSFUL SCHOOL INTEGRATION IN A DIFFERENTIATED EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AT AN INTEGRATED JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL. THE PROGRAM INCLUDED PRESCHOOL…

TWELFTH- AND SIXTH-GRADE DATA FROM A STUDY BY JAMES S. COLEMAN WERE USED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE EQUALITY OF EDUCATION IN THE NORTH. THE MORE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS POSED WERE--(1) IS THERE AN INSTRUCTIONAL COST DIFFERENTIAL DUE TO RACE, (2) WHAT IS THE PROPORTION OF WHITES IN CLASSES COMPOSED OF BOTH NEGROES AND WHITES, AND (3) ARE THERE REAL…

This report summarizes the findings and recommendations of the Bi-State Committee on Education concerning public schools in the Greater Kansas City region, especially with regard to the problem of racial isolation. Educational activities and problems, civic and political leadership in the area, and the significance of segregated housing patterns…

THE PRODUCT OF A CONFERENCE WHICH CONCENTRATED ON THE ISSUES OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION IN A CULTURAL CONTEXT, THE ESSAYS IN THIS VOLUME DEAL WITH (1) THE SOCIAL-POLITICAL ASPECTS OF COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (2) RACIAL ISOLATION AND COMPENSATORY EDUCATION, (3) THE FAMILY STRUCTURE IN LATIN AMERICAN AND NEGRO AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, (4) SOCIAL DEVIANCE…

Interrelated forces which have shaped the distribution of population in metropolitan areas, and the social geography of the suburbs in particular, are described in this work. Contemporary patterns and problems concerning the organization of social space in the outer city are reviewed. Suburbia's residential spatial structure is examined in terms…

The accomplishments of three leaders who struggled for freedom and equality in their own countries are outlined in this unit of study for elementary and secondary school students. These leaders include the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Chief Albert John Luthuli, and Mahatma Gandhi. The unit emphasizes the principles these men stood for in…

Studies which are relevant to the experiences of children in segregated and desegregated schools are reviewed and evaluated in this edition, including those completed by 1969. For purposes of the study segregation is defined as a socially patterned separation of people; desegregation as the abolition of social practices that bar equal access to…

This volume is a collection of papers presented at a 1962 symposium on school dropouts. Participants represented the disciplines of both education and the social sciences. It was hoped that the multidisciplinary contributions might crystallize a contextual statement about the nature of the dropout problem as well as indications for effective…

Education will become the functioning instrument of a stable democracy by being in all its stages and dimensions an example of the democratic process. Within this framework, the desegregation of our schools can proceed; and with the desegregation of our schools, we can achieve that more difficult stage--the true integration of our schools. The…

This paper focuses attention on the critical importance of zoning and housing to education. It covers the causes of undersirable housing patterns, the apparent effects of these patterns on educational achievement, and possibilities for positive action to reverse the negative effects. Although examples are drawn from Santa Clara County, the thesis…

The contents of the second edition of this book on "metropolitanism" include: (1) Metropolitan schools and social structure: three schools of the metropolis, social mobility, etc.; (2) Urban and metropolitan development: the city in an essentially rural society, new definitions of metroplis, etc.; (3) Socioeconomic and racial stratification in…

Since Americans tend to live together with people of similar occupation and income, and style of life, neighborhoods tend to be composed of people approximately equal in status. But Americans tend also to group together according to race. Negroes are largely contained in neighborhoods seen as low-status--usually as slums. This residential…

This study examines results of integration programs in cities relatively similar in size and ethnic composition to San Diego. Pertinent case studies, conflicting experimental research findings, and group attitudes reflected in opinion polls are described and evaluated. A summary of the major conclusions and an annotated bibliography complete the…