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Congressional Digest, 1974
Views of advocates of busing to achieve racial desegregation in public schools are presented, including those of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Joint Washington Office for Social Concern. (SF)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities
Kentucky State Commission on Human Rights, Frankfort. – 1977
This report notes that the Jefferson County, Kentucky, school system has failed to implement the 1975 Court-ordered desegregation plan. Data supplied by the Board of Education and data taken from previous state Human Rights Commission reports demonstrate that Jefferson County schools continue to manifest racial imbalance among students, faculty…
Descriptors: Black Students, Black Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidelines
Royster, Eugene C.; And Others – 1979
This study uses a representative sample of eighteen school districts to determine the effectiveness of magnet school programs as a strategy in school desegregation. An overview of issues concerning magnet school programs is provided. The magnet schools in the eighteen districts and their community contexts are described. The relationship of magnet…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Programs, Institutional Characteristics, Magnet Schools
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Davidson, James D.; And Others – Social Problems, 1978
An analysis of student status and behavior patterns at 12 schools indicates that interracial climates are directly related to the rate of change in their racial compositions and to the social and academic status of Black and White students. Racial stability, gradual change, and the presence of one high status group contribute to a positive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Change Strategies, Racial Attitudes
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Ogbu, John U. – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1978
Three aspects of desegregated schools, dealt with in the other articles in this volume, are discussed: the relation of stratification in the community to social relations and academic identities in the schools; the distinction between school desegregation and school integration; and the problem of time lag in the study of emergent social…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Group Children, Racial Composition, Racially Balanced Schools
Lines, Patricia M. – Equity and Choice, 1986
Focuses on the application of a targeted and regulated voucher system to the problems of racial segregation. Suggests that under a regulated voucher system, minorities (Chapter 1 students, in particular) have a better chance of obtaining both the racial balance and the school characteristics they desire. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Educational Vouchers, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Minority Groups
Marek, Elizabeth A. – New Perspectives, 1985
Discusses the positive and negative consequences of school desegregation in Boston, and focuses particularly on the role of Judge Arthur Garrity. Asserts that, however much desegregation created racial imbalances by encouraging White flight, it has led to the establishment of a school system in which quality and equality can finally exist. (KH)
Descriptors: Blacks, Court Role, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans
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Willie, Charles V. – School Review, 1976
Proposed a new approach to school desegregation which attempted to unite method with purpose. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Objectives, Educational Opportunities, Educational Planning
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Farley, Reynolds; Taeuber, Alma F. – American Journal of Sociology, 1974
This paper presents data on racial segregation in public elementary schools in 60 cities for the 1967-68 year. As of fall 1967 few large school systems had been compelled by law to desegregate. These data represent the best available baseline prior to the major desegration efforts and controversies of recent years. (Author/RM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educational Research, Elementary Schools, Racial Composition
Hooker, Clifford P. – NOLPE School Law Journal, 1972
Discusses legal and educational issues arising from the recent desegregation case, Bradley vs the School Board of the City of Richmond. The central theme of the analysis is that the Bradley decision expanded the white majority thesis -- the proposition that whites must be in the majority in all schools in order to achieve equality of educational…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans, Metropolitan Areas
Grieder, Calvin – Nation's Schools, 1973
Describes judicial actions concerning two recent changes of significance to educational control and finance--the consolidation of urban and suburban school districts, and the busing of elementary pupils away from their neighborhood schools. Explains how the lines of action taken go contrary to well known and well accepted findings of political…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Court Litigation, Educational Problems, Racially Balanced Schools
Congressional Digest, 1970
Comprised of an explanatory foreword, expressions of present federal policy, racial distribution in public schools, alternative school policy proposals, and action to date in the 91st Congress. (JM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Plans, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
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Integrated Education, 1978
Compared in this paper, by the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, are the enrollment patterns of and degrees earned by Blacks, Hispanics, and women in Pennsylvania colleges. Findings indicate that Blacks and females are underrepresented in the greatest number of types of institutions. (Author/EB)
Descriptors: Blacks, Case Studies, Educational Opportunities, Enrollment Trends
Intellect, 1976
Does school integration in a city lead to massive "white flight"? Examines the findings of demographer Reynolds Farley, a professor at the University of Michigan, who states that cities which maintain segregated schools have lost white students at about the same rate as cities undergoing school integration. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Demography, Dropouts, Educational Research
Illinois State Office of Education, Springfield. – 1976
Included in this document are: (1) definitions of the terms "desegregation,""metropolitan" or "multi-district plans,""non-compliance,""non-conformance,""racial composition," and "school authority"; (2) desegregation report and conformity requirements; (3) details of a corrective…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Racial Integration
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