Attempts to evaluate the effect of the Brown v the Board of Education by answering three questions: (1) What was the initial effect of the decision? (2) What are the present challenges to the Brown decision? (3) What influence will the decision have on the future of American schools? (Author/MK)

Discusses the results of an attempt in the Netherlands to establish an integrated community to house immigrants from a Dutch colony in Africa. (MK)

This national study reports on the changing attitudes of white adults having school age children toward school integration during the period 1965-1969. Stresses the importance of regional and educational variables. With the exception of farmers, most non-Southern respondents accepted some form of school integration. (DM)

Examines how school desegregation in a Louisiana parish (county) affected elementary teacher education programs at Louisiana State University, a predominantly White school, and Southern University, a predominantly Black school. (Author/MK)

Emphasizes that teachers are an intrinsic part of the desegregation process. For example, teachers play a primary role in determining whether or not quality education will exist in desegregated/integrated schools. (Author/AM)

To date, the magnet schools in St. Louis have satisfied the federal judge who has been supervising school desegregation. However, federal appeals court judges have indicated that they believe the plan falls short of meaningful integration. (Author/AM)

Teachers' concerns in the recently desegregated Willa Cather Elementary School include: (1) problems arising from busing; (2) unfamiliar behavior among Black children, with whom White teachers have not had previous experience; (3) disadvantaged family and educational backgrounds of Black students; (4) a wide range of achievement levels among…

This is an interview with Carl Candoli, School Superintendent of the Lansing, Michigan, School System, and one of the chief authors of the Cluster Plan for desegregation, which emphasized busing. (Author/AM)

Account of: (1) Supreme Court hearings involving school segregation cases in Charlotte, North Carolina, Mobile, Alabama, and Athens, Georgia; and, (2) school integration progress in other states. (DM)

In general, the seven magnet high schools haven't worked as a way of keeping whites in Philadelphia's schools. Despite the millions spent on new magnet schools, nearly all of them are more segregated today than when they opened. (Author)