Wichita, Kansas maintained a dual black and white school system from 1906 to 1952. Segregation continued, however, between 1952 and 1971. The board of education appointed a blue-ribbon, low economic area problems committee which made recommendations for desegregation of the schools along both racial and socioeconomic lines. Recommendations for…

THE PLAN OF THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY IS OUTLINED IN AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE WHICH BRIEFLY DISCUSSES THE STATUS OF RACIAL DESEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION IN THE SCHOOLS. ONE SECTION OF THE BIBLIOGRAPHY IDENTIFIES SOME REPORTS AND DISCUSSIONS OF DESEGREGATION EFFORTS. A SECOND AND BRIEFER ONE BRINGS TOGETHER ARTICLES WHICH DEAL WITH THE LEGAL DECISIONS ON WHICH…

Efforts to desegregate the public schools in Berkeley, California began in 1957 when a committee was appointed to study the problems of desegregation. In 1963, the board voted to desegregate the junior high schools and to study methods for desegregating the elementary schools. The 1968 elementary desegregation plan was complex. To desegregate the…

Four questions are investigated in this paper: (1) How does desegregation affect academic achievement? (2) What is the effect of desegregation on the minority child's self concept and his/her educational and career aspiration? (3) In what ways does desegregation influence the manner in which students of different races get on with one another? (4)…

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…

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.…

The flood of new programs funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 provided fertile grounds for doctoral dissertation research on the education of the disadvantaged. Bits and pieces of research throughout the country are entombed in DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL and university libraries. The ERIC/IRCD…

This article focuses on the use of compulsory busing to achieve school integration. The effects of busing on Black self-concept, academic achievement, student teacher relationships, resegregation of Black students by tracking in integrated schools, and community attitudes are examined. (Author/MC)

THIS PAPER REVIEWS RESEARCH ON PUBLIC SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AND SUGGESTS DIRECTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES. IT NOTES THAT RESEARCHERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE THE FACTORS WHICH AFFECT THE PACE OF DESEGREGATION, SUCH AS THE PRESSURES OF THE NEGRO COMMUNITY AND OF THE STATE AND OTHER AGENCIES. FOR EXAMPLE, THEY SHOULD STUDY THE SPECIFIC…

This study evaluates the effects of busing on the subsequent achievement performance of bused black students. Differences in achievement gains or losses are hypothesized as being both a function of bused students attitudes toward busing and desegregation and of the interracial climate of acceptance in the receiving schools. Findings from data…