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Rasmussen, Chris – History of Education Quarterly, 2017
New Brunswick High School, which had been racially integrated for decades, became majority-minority (and soon, all minority) in the 1970s, after years of legal wrangling led hundreds of its students to depart for a new, nearly all-white high school in the adjacent suburb of North Brunswick. White suburbanites invoked "local control" to…
Descriptors: Educational History, School Desegregation, Whites, Racial Discrimination
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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
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Integrated Education, 1982
Presents excerpts from previous issues of "Integrated Education" on the progress of school desegregation in Los Angeles, California. Focuses on relations and conflicts between the court and the school board while formulating and implementing a desegregation plan, and on public attitudes toward desegregation proposals. (MJL)
Descriptors: Blacks, Board of Education Role, Busing, Citizen Participation
Scherer, Jacqueline; And Others – 1981
This is the second of a four-part study on the function of social networks in school community relations in Pontiac, Michigan. This volume consists of a 20th century social, economic, and demographic history of Pontiac, focusing on (1) the role of the auto industry in forming the socioeconomic character of the city, and (2) race relations. Then…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Economic Development, Economic Factors
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Mauney, Connie – American Journal of Education, 1982
Compares Federal court-ordered school desegregation plans in urban and rural Tennessee school districts. Indicates that approaches differed with varying district characteristics. Suggests that community responses to plans were influenced by such factors as racial composition; customs; leaders' attitudes; environmental and economic conditions; and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Community Attitudes, Court Role
Morgan, David R.; And Others – 1982
This handbook was prepared to provide guidance and suggestions primarily for school officials who are developing a plan for school desegregation or who are trying to revise an existing plan. Indications of what has and has not worked in other districts are based on experts' recommendations, on case studies from other communities, and on the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Busing, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement