Little has been done to systematize and institutionalize the experimentation, demonstration, and dissemination potential for education in new communities. (Author)

School desegregation has been a success in the South and a failure nationwide. Gambling major resources on integration will not pay off, but teaching children how to read in place" might. (Author/MF)

Summarizes the latest research on segregation within and between districts and on the relationships between desegregation attempts and "white flight." (IRT)

The result, for those seeking a metropolitanwide solution to school desegregation, is that neither Milliken nor the implementation of Gautreaux offers very much hope for the near future. (Author)

The shared struggles facing urban and rural schools, such as changing cultural and linguistic classroom profiles, increased childhood poverty, and residential segregation patterns, influence financial inequities between people and communities thus contributing to gaps in academic achievement and teacher shortages in both settings. The…

As a result of his study, "Public and Private Schools," James Coleman concludes that Catholic schools appear to be characterized by both higher quality, on the average, and greater equality than the public schools. Coleman discusses the reasons that may explain this finding. (Author/WD)