This report on desegregation includes an article by Senator M. Morris Jackson concerning desegregation in Ohio, and several brief reports on desegregation trends in California, Illinois, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, and Washington. Senator Jackson's article discusses the findings of Ohio's Joint Select Committee on School Desegregation, a bipartisan…

Describes the mixed feelings of educators toward the central role of schools in desegregation and urges that school officials press other social institutions and government entities to help bear the responsibility for desegregation. Discusses pros and cons of quality isolated education versus student reassignment for racial balance. (RDN)

Suggests several criteria for the short-term evaluation of school desegregation: (1) racial balancing; (2) equity; (3) educational improvements; and (4) citizen participation. Evaluates school desegregation in Milwaukee according to these criteria and judges it to have been a mixed success. (GC)

Although the physical separation of school-age children is less common since "Brown v. the Board of Education," the number of students attending racially isolated schools is increasing. Several factors are shaping resistance to true desegregation, including the limitations set by racism, legally mandated change, court focus, demographics, and…

Racial issues such as busing and affirmative action are not supported by most black people despite contrary insinuations by the media. Court ordered busing was not implicit in the 1954 Supreme Court decision which struck down state-imposed segregation. As a result we now have a situation that goes counter to the intent of the original decision.…

The data collected by the Ways to Improve Education in Desegregated Schools (WIEDS) survey and summarized in this paper include the following: (1) demographic data of school districts in Texas and educators surveyed; (2) successful desegregation strategies used by the 262 sample school districts, particularly those used for racial balancing,…

THIS STUDY COMBINED SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH TO TEST THE HYPOTHESIS THAT NEGRO AND WHITE PARENTS OF SIMILAR SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS WOULD NOT DIFFER SIGNIFICANTLY IN THEIR ATTITUDES TOWARD JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS OF VARYING RACIAL BALANCE IN BUFFALO, NEW YORK. THE THEORETICAL VIEWPOINT WHICH WAS TESTED IN THIS RESEARCH WAS…

Describes the involvement of Brockton Public Schools with the Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Law and its gradual development of equal educational opportunity. Emphasizes community involvement in planning educational policies that lead from desegregation to full integration of diverse populations. (SA)

Presents an historic overview of school desegregation court decisions. Discusses governmental and socioeconomic factors that have influenced school desegregation policy. Describes the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) school desegregation settlement based on voluntary interdistrict student transfers and efforts to remedy racial isolation by integrating…

This report assesses the relative effectiveness of primarily voluntary and primarily mandatory desegregation plans in a sub-sample of 20 school districts, 9 of which are magnet-voluntary plans and 11 of which are magnet-mandatory plans. The major conclusions of this report are the following: (1) voluntary desegregation plans work; (2) dismantling…

This report summarizes the costs and outcomes of Seattle, Washington's 1977-78 desegregation programs; perspectives on desegregation programs of surveyed parents, teachers, and administrators; and recommendations based on this information. A major emphasis of the report is on the extent to which student transfer programs reduced racial imbalance…

Academic achievement of fifth grade students, statistically controlled for the student's socioeconomic status, was studied in relationship to the racial balance of the student's school. Eleven elementary schools were assigned to three categories in which the percentage of students who were black was either 11 to 15, 22 to 24, or 47 to 51%.…

In this work implementation of federal school desegregation policy is analyzed for the first four years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Government officials are mentioned by name as their attitudes and actions are described. Ways are examined in which administrators perceived their political and organizational environment. Based on these…

This paper is a summary report of the "Study of the Emergency School Aid Act Magnet School Program" which was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of magnet school programs as a strategy in school desegregation. The representative sample of eighteen schools used in the study and their community contexts are described, and the…

This report, funded under Title III of ESEA, describes the Berkeley Unified School District's search for a permanent solution to the problem of maintaining racial heterogeneity along with educational quality. Of the alternatives available, the educational park concept was found to be most promising. Early sections of the report deal exclusively…