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Detroit Public Schools, MI. – 1979
The accountability system developed by the Detroit Public Schools is designed to ensure that the letter and the spirit of the educational components of the system's desegregation plan are fully instituted in every school. For each component (bilingual/bicultural education, elementary and middle school reading, career and counseling guidance,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Administrative Policy, Administrator Responsibility, Compliance (Legal)
Peer reviewedOllie, Bert W., Jr.; Leonard, James R. – Planning and Changing, 1980
After listing factors that research and desegregation experience indicate impede desegregation success, the authors present a model that recommends identifying new, effective, researched, and nationally demonstrated programs that would address these factors. (JM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Integration Readiness
Peer reviewedHentschke, Guilbert C.; And Others – Urban Education, 1985
Proposes that voluntary interdistrict programs should be seriously considered as a major desegregation strategy. Reviews social, demographic, and legislative trends that support this proposal and describes conditions that are required for such programs to flourish. (GC)
Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Government
Carney, M., Ed.; And Others – 1979
This report describes inservice training programs in six eastern United States school districts. The districts range in student population from 4,400 to 65,000 and initially desegregated between 1970 and 1978. A team of investigators visited each of the districts and interviewed approximately 40 administrators, inservice trainers, and training…
Descriptors: Administrators, Case Studies, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Brooks, Jennifer Giddings – 1985
The 1984-85 Magnet Program of the Fort Worth (Texas) Independent School District is described and evaluated in this report. General data and information on specific sites are included. The major finding was that the Fort Worth magnet schools were highly successful in providing for high academic performance, and moderately successful as an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment
Kimbrough, Jackie; Hyman, James – 1978
The Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) of 1972 authorizes grants or contracts to nonprofit organizations (NPOs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to support the LEAs' efforts to desegregate or to reduce minority group isolation or its effects. The NPO program is a small component of ESAA which provides financial assistance to community…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Desegregation Methods
King, Nicelma J. – 1980
This report summarizes the findings of a national study of how desegregated school districts use staff development to prepare for desegregation. Data were collected in a series of field visits to sixteen desegregated school districts varying in size, ethnic composition, and geographic location. Three aspects of staff development were studied: the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Board of Education Policy, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Detroit Public Schools, MI. Office of Federal, State, and Special Projects. – 1979
In 1979 the United States District Court ordered the Detroit Public Schools to transfer its teachers in such a way that each school in the system would have a faculty comprised of not more than 60% of one race. In order to effect this balance, the district had to involuntarily transfer 472 teachers. This application for Emergency School Aid Act…
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education, Interviews
Download full textGodard, James M., Ed. – 1980
Three plans implemented during 1979-80 that addressed the presence of historically black and historically white public universities in the same metropolitan areas are described. Plans were developed in Nashville, Tennessee; Norfolk, Virginia; and Savannah, Georgia. In Nashville, Tennessee State University and the University of Tennessee at…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Black Students, College Desegregation, College Segregation
