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Hillson, Jon – 1977
This book concentrates on the experiences, personal insights, and big events that made up the battle to desegregate the public schools in Boston, Massachusetts. It also gives the historical background of the struggle. In 1965, Massachusetts passed the first state law against de facto segregation, the Racial Imbalance Act. It was not enforced. On…
Descriptors: Black Education, Blacks, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Holden, Anna – 1974
This study originated in 1968, when desegregation was being carried out mainly on a one-way basis, by busing minority pupils to predominantly white schools. Two of the districts studied, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Providence, Rhode Island, were then groping their way toward racial balance, primarily because of local pressures, and both had…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Smith, Kathleen, Ed. – 1974
Western Regional School Desegregation Projects, University of California at Riverside, along with Community Resources Limited, designed and conducted a program to advance our information, knowledge, and ability to plan school desegregation processes. Its purpose was to help narrow the time lag between local politically or court-mandated…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Classroom Desegregation, Curriculum Development, Desegregation Effects
Rist, Ray C. – 1978
This book describes the day-to-day life of students, teachers, administrators and parents in an affluent white school located in Portland, Oregon. It gives an account of the first year of racial integration in the school, 1973-1974, when about thirty students from the black community were bused to and from the school. To describe the process of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Wells, Amy Stuart; Crain, Robert L. – 1997
This description of the accomplishments and shortcomings of one school desegregation plan provides insights into much broader dialogue on the role of race in America. St. Louis (Missouri) and its suburbs demographically resemble many midsized contemporary metropolitan areas in the United States. What makes St. Louis unique is an urban-suburban…
Descriptors: Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Fife, Brian L. – 1992
This book presents the findings of a study of school desegregation strategies conducted in order to examine which of the various approaches to school desegregation most effectively reduce the level of segregation in public schools. The first two chapters look at school desegregation since the 1950s and mandatory versus voluntary desegregation…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Busing, Comparative Analysis, Desegregation Effects
St. John, Nancy H. – 1975
This book focuses on the question: What is the effect of racial mixing in school on the children involved? Unless the context indicates a more specific meaning, "desegregation" is used here to refer broadly to racial mixing in schools. The term "integration" is reserved for that biracial situation in which the minority group is accepted on a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Educational Research
Levin, Betsy, Ed.; Hawley, Willis D., Ed. – 1977
A conference on the courts, social science, and school desegregation attempted to clarify how social science research has been used and possibly misused in school desegregation litigation. The symposium issue addressed in this book is a product of that conference. First, the judicial evolution of the law of school desegregation from Brown V. the…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Court Role, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
North Carolina Central Univ., Durham. – 1974
This book grew out of an intensive field study of Goldsboro and its school system that aimed at understanding how Goldsboro achieved a farreaching degree of desegregation without disruptive incidents in a system in which whites moved from a position as the majority in their school to a position as the minority. Chapter 1 introduces the study.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Graglia, Lino A. – 1976
The author strongly criticizes busing, the compulsory transportation of school children out of their neighborhoods to increase school racial balance. He reviews all the major court decisions bearing on busing and school integration since the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision. He maintains that the Supreme Court stepped out of the…
Descriptors: Busing, Court Litigation, Court Role, Desegregation Effects