This paper has two stated purposes; to show what has happened in school integration in recent years, and to encourage, or goad, or shame, through demonstration, the Federal Government into routinely carrying out statistical analysis which can inform non-economic policies about their indirect effects, it is stated. (Author/JM)

In the first paper presented here eight problems are addressed: (1) racial inventory of Catholic school students; (2) inventory of integration policies and programs; (3) minority faculty in Catholic schools; (4) desegregation strategy; (5) Catholic schools and public school desegregation; (6) Catholic schools and Hispanic Americans; (7) successful…

FIVE STUDIES ON INTEGRATION PROBLEMS WERE UNDERTAKEN AT THE CENTER FOR HUMAN RELATIONS STUDIES OF NEW YORK UNIVERSITY. ONE, BY ROSNER, STUDIED WHETHER A MAJORITY OF YOUTHS, WHEN PLACED IN SETTINGS IN WHICH THEY WERE THE MINORITY, ASSUMED CHARACTERISTICS WHICH WERE ROUGHLY DESCRIBED AS MINORITY BEHAVIOR. IN SPITE OF THE GENERAL CULTURAL VALUES…

A PAPER PRESENTED TO A WORKSHOP FOR PERSONNEL FROM THE 16 PROJECT ABLE CITIES ENLARGES UPON THE THEME THAT TO CREATE GENUINE EQUALITY OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY, EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS HAVE TO BE UNEQUAL. ATTEMPTS TO CARRY OUT EQUAL OPPORTUNITY IN EDUCATION INCLUDE THE EFFORTS OF THE NEW YORK CITY COMMISSION ON INTEGRATION WHOSE SUCCESS AT A CITY…

This is a report of school desegregation in Greenville, Mississippi. In 1964, five years before ordered to do so by a federal judge, Greenville initiated its own plan for majority-to-minority crossover of students on a "freedom of choice" basis. The school board also initiated a voluntary teacher transfer program that met with…

A total of 3,681 students in the second, fifth, and eighth grades at 24 integrated elementary schools completed a brief questionnaire listing the sex and race of their four best friends at school. Racial discrimination in friendship choices was related to the relative frequency of the student's racial group within a grade. Blacks, but not whites,…

This document presents the results of an authorized study of reported school desegregation problems in East Texas. It is designed to be of value to any school district in which desegregation is being planned or implemented. The field studies which provided the basis for the report were conducted in three phases: (1) the preliminary staff inquiry,…

TO EXAMINE THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION ON ACCULTURATION, THIS PILOT STUDY ATTEMPTED TO DETERMINE IF THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE IN EXTENT OF EDUCATION BETWEEN THOSE WASHO INDIANS WHO WERE ACCULTURATED AND THOSE WHO WERE NOT. WHEN IT WAS FOUND THAT THE EDUCATIONAL LEVEL OF TWO TENTATIVELY SELECTED GROUPS WAS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT,…

The fourth in a series of reports on racial attitudes shows that U.S. whites have increased their support of integration at a steady pace, with a striking period of more rapid change between 1970 and 1972. (Author/MA)

The Corpus Christi Independent School District is undergoing the third phase of its integration order. Officials, who once talked of appealing the remedies as soon as the final phase was ordered, will not do so. The death of the unpopular computer grid plan defused the major complaints. (Author/AM)

The Flint public school system, Michigan's second largest, has adopted an aggressive magnet school plan but the project has fallen short of ending segregation in the city's classrooms. (Author/AM)

This research sample finds the most desirable racial balance to be found in classrooms of 21-40 percent and 41-60 percent nonwhite pupil composition in the mixed white type of school. (Author/JN)

Beginning with the Brown vs. Topeka'' case of 1954 and continuing to the Equal Educational Opportunity bill of 1972, the author traces a series of court cases, laws, pronouncements and research studies concerning educational opportunity and the implications of the busing concept for desegregation and integration. (Author/JM)

Reports the results of a national survey conducted for the Commission on Civil Rights, which found that the public does not know much about the school busing to which it is supposedly so vehemently opposed, and that that lack of knowledge affects where it stands on the issue. (Author/JM)

An analysis of 93 research studies involving 323 samples of students reassigned from segregated to desegregated schools by government action determined that differences in findings can be attributed to differences in methodology. Of the seven types of methodologies studied, randomized experiments all showed positive achievement effects. (Author/KC)