A brief debate on the effectiveness of busing. (CM)

The Controlled Parents' Choice Program in White Plains, New York, successfully combines equity and racial balance concerns with parental opportunity to select a child's elementary school. The program's success hinges on expressed parental preference, guaranteed priority for siblings, residential preference, formal deadlines, a lottery, waiting…

Responses from 276 of 690 white secondary teachers in South Africa showed that 59% supported integrated schools. The most negative attitudes were held by Afrikaans speakers (75%) rather than English speakers (31%). The majority anticipated problems in implementing integration in public schools. (SK)

The 50th anniversary of the "Brown v. Board of Education" decision provides a critical opportunity to reflect on "Brown's" importance, impact, and the lessons it provides on achieving racial desegregation and its relationship to the progressive inclusion of students with disabilities into public schools across the United…

Community building has been a key concern for a wide array of educational projects. Recently, educational theories concerned about social justice have begun to challenge assumptions about community in U.S. education by criticizing its tendencies toward assimilation and homogeneity. Such theories point out that a communitarian agenda excludes the…

A study draws on the case study of one suburban school district in U.S. to detail the structural, institutional, and symbolic inequalities that characterize such settings and contribute to educational inequality. It finds that even in supposedly integrated suburbs, African American and Caucasian students navigate a racialized educational terrain…

A number of public school districts in the United States have adopted income-based integration policies--policies that use measures of family income or socioeconomic status--in determining school assignment. Some scholars and policymakers contend that such policies will also reduce racial segregation. In this article this assumption is explored by…

This study examined 7-year follow-up data from the Yonkers Project, a study of a 1985 court-ordered neighborhood desegregation program in Yonkers, NY. Low-income Black and Latino families residing in impoverished neighborhoods who were randomly selected to relocate to publicly funded townhouses in middle-class communities and demographically…

William Galston posed two dilemmas about parental rights and education in "Liberal Purposes". The first of these arises from conflict between the proper ends of civic education in a liberal society and the values that some parents will want to honor in the way they rear their children; the second arises from conflict between how the basic…

Coleman reasserts his position on white flight in answering charges raised against him in the preceeding issue. (IRT)

Asserts that analysis of Mary Terrell's articles, reveals that she succeeded in breaking down myths that justified and perpetuated lynchings and the peonage system in the South, and that she pointed out adverse effects of discrimination and the need for fairness and justice as they related to the treatment of black people. (Author/JM)

A look at landmark court decisions on school desegregation. (Editor)

Article focused on the attempt to use cross-busing in order to remedy racial segregation. (Author/RK)

This booklet describes the process of desegregation in the Cleveland Public School System. It begins with chronological history of the case of Reed v. Rhodes and other milestones in the desegregation struggle in Cleveland. This is followed by a section describing the Constitutional violations that were cited as causing segregated schools, the…

Uses data drawn from a longitudinal study to examine the several viewpoints from which the degree of success (as measured by absorption and integration) a minority group family will have after deciding to leave an agricultural or migrant economy may be considered. (Author/JM)