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McWilliams, Dorothy – 1968
De facto segregation in schools deprives children of certain minority groups of true equality of opportunity. Those people who propose doing nothing about integration are simply making excuses for avoiding change. The Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association has set up five principles which may be used as guidelines in…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Equal Education

Giles, Micheal W. – American Sociological Review, 1978
This analysis of the relationship between percent Black enrollment and White enrollment change focuses on 60 districts and about 1,600 schools in the South. Higher percent Black enrollments are found to be associated with the rate of White withdrawal at both the district and the school levels. (Author/MC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Influences, Enrollment Trends

Fuerst, J. S. – Urban Education, 1987
Describes the following four successful programs used in Connecticut to achieve integrated schools: (1) improvement of the Hartford Public Schools; (2) busing program from Hartford schools to suburban schools; (3) Bloomfield, CT, program for equal education; and (4) Windsor, CT, program of Black and White cooperation to halt White flight. (PS)
Descriptors: Busing, Desegregation Methods, Equal Education, Feeder Patterns
American School Board Journal, 1987
Progress on school racial desegregation has halted, yet states where segregation was law before 1954 are now more integrated than states that didn't practice racial segregation. Presents results from a study on school segregation in the 1980s. (MD)
Descriptors: Black Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Hispanic Americans, Racial Balance

Biles, Roger – Journal of Negro Education, 1986
A close examination of Memphis, Tennessee, public school desegregation since Brown vs. Board of Education demonstrates how successful many southern communities have been in circumventing the decision. By 1981 White flight to the suburbs and increased enrollment in private schools left a public school system 76 percent Black and 24 percent White.…
Descriptors: Black Education, Busing, Civil Rights, Desegregation Methods

Meadows, George Richard – School Review, 1976
Examines how selected fiscal incentives for open enrollment might help to achieve greater racial and socioeconomic integration. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Educational Practices, Models, Open Enrollment
Sewall, Angela M.; Witcher, Ann E. – 1998
This report provides an overview of the struggle to desegregate schools in the United States. It describes the two phases of desegregation, focusing on court decisions that influenced desegregation and how these decisions changed the composition of the schools. It opens with the 1849 decision that asserted that desegregation was for the good of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education
McArdle, Clare G.; Young, Nancy F. – Amer J Orthopsychiat, 1970
A discussion of weekly meetings by an interracial group of high school students who considered personal responsibility toward the problems of civil rights and racial equality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (New York, New York, 1969). (JM)
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Group Discussion, Peer Groups, Racial Attitudes

Gaston, George W., Jr. – Clearing House, 1972
Suggestions by a Southern educator for handling situations created by busing and resulting integration of secondary school students. (SP)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods

Jelinek, Milena M. – Educational Research, 1977
This is a third and final paper on aspects of multiracial education, derived from data collected by the National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales for the Department of Education and Science. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Educational Research, Flow Charts, Pilot Projects
Bennett, David A. – American School Board Journal, 1989
The St. Paul, Minnesota, School Board proposes a plan to explore a voluntary metropolitan desegregation program. Addresses the widespread fear of, and opposition to, school desegregation and makes recommendations for metropolitan desegregation. (MLF)
Descriptors: Economic Opportunities, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Metropolitan Areas
Is Comprehensive Racial Inclusion an Elusive Goal for Educational Institutions in the United States?

King, Kimberly Lenease – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2001
Discusses a comprehensive approach to racial inclusion in education, highlighting the inclusion process undertaken at one South African university during the post-apartheid era and examining this experience for possible lessons to be learned by U.S. postsecondary institutions. Suggested strategies for racial inclusion must consider developing…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Affirmative Action, Black Students, Equal Education

Rist, Ray C. – Integrated Education, 1976
Suggests that school systems refrain from policies of token dispersal unless black parents specifically request such a program, and proposes that a small number of predominantly white schools allow integration with larger percentages of minority students. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Educationally Disadvantaged, Minority Group Children, Racial Balance
Clotfelter, Charles – 1982
This report examines the meaning and utility of several different desegregation-related measures relevant to Federal policy and technical assistance. Following the introduction, Section II discusses alternative measures of school segregation and desegregation. Major indices are compared, using a hypothetical school district for illustrative…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Federal Government, Measurement Techniques
D'Onofrio, William D., Comp. – 1983
This analysis compares student test scores before and after school busing in New Castle County, Delaware, in an attempt to see if busing to achieve racial balance reduces the achievement gap between black and white students. School authorities pre-tested students with the California Achievement Test (CAT) in 1978-79, the first year of busing, and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Black Students, Busing, Desegregation Effects