South Africa recently celebrated 24 years of desegregated schooling, with the majority of former White schools in the country now representative of the demographics of the country as a whole. It is with this background in mind that this study examines how teachers who taught pre-1994, when schools were monoethnic, and post-1994, when schools were…

No one thought of black or white. We were just a teacher and a group of fifth grade boys and girls having fun to music in a classroom in a changing south. (Author)

Consists of 8 articles entitled: (1) Winners and Losers; (2) What the Statistics Say; (3) Northern Integration; (4) Massive Resistance Northern Style; (5) The Case of New York City; (6) As the Students See It; (7) Mississippi Conversations; (8) Reflections on the Past Twenty Years. Each deals with the aftermath of Brown vs. the Board of Education.…

There should be a meaningful discussion on the importance of awareness of group sensitivities if children are to be worked with effectively. It is obvious that social consciousness is changing radically in these volatile times. This article reviews some of the significant changes. (Author/NH)

This study explored the state of desegregation and integration in South African schools 11 years after the demise of Apartheid. Three classrooms in three desegregating schools with different histories and race profiles were visited. Overall, each classroom was visited on 10 occasions over a period of 2 weeks. Direct observation was the main data…

A look at landmark court decisions on school desegregation. (Editor)

In 1971-72, desegregation of pupils in Florida schools is approaching totality. Simultaneously, disruption of schools because of interracial friction appears to have increased, though it may directly involve only a small percentage of pupils. Complete integration of schools remains a goal to be sought. (Author)

A one-day in-service workshop was held for elementary and middle school teachers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Each workshop consisted of large-group presentations followed by small-group discussions by participants, who were divided into nine groups. Presentations concerned techniques to aid motivation among multicultural and multiracial…

Throughout the 1960's, when racial strife was rampant throughout the nation, Atlanta's shining image was, to a large degree, the result of a black majority too busy to hate." (Author/RJ)

The Laboratory School-Teacher Education Module, Western Regional School Desegregation Project of the University of California at Riverside was designed to help a select group of teachers find some of the answers in solving problems of school desegregation. (SB)

This paper provides a view of the minority administrator's role in desegregated school systems over the past twenty years. It presents a prototypical example of how basically egalitarian principles associated with school desegregation have been misrepresented in practice. A challenge to the system is proposed using coalitions and political power…

This article details some of the underlying assumptions of teacher retraining efforts, both inservice and preservice, and ties them into ongoing problems of racism in public schools. (Author)

This report is concerned with 3 major problems. The answers to these problems were obtained from the results of 2 surveys. A. The two most serious problems faced by the cross-over teachers (teachers teaching children who differ racially from themselves) in the sample, in rank order, were: discipline and classroom control; and unfamiliarity with…