Introduces a journal issue that is intended to regenerate research on minorities in elementary schools and focus on important questions that have been underexplored. Discusses declines in research on minorities, and the problems and possible directions of new research.(SKC)

By establishing a learning resources center'' for children with special education problems, Bellwood Avenue School in Linwood, New Jersey, has begun the slow process of bringing these youngsters back into society, teaching them to operate and deal with a society that helped to create their problems. The attempt is to substantiate the notion that…

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)

Describes a developmental affective education program implemented in two integrated classrooms (at the fifth and eighth grade level). The program consists of ten 45-minute sessions and is designed to help students cope with feelings and explore values related to racial issues. (Author)

Six desegregated first grade classrooms in predominantly white working-class communities near a large Midwestern city were observed in order to explore ways in which black males' school experiences differ from those of other students. Twenty percent of the 139 students in the classrooms were black males. Of the six teachers, all of whom were…

This paper presents an overview of interventions that schools can use to enhance the psychological and social development of children in a desegregated school environment. Five remedies, designed to meet children's psychological needs in desegregated schools, are first defined and then analyzed for specific interventions appropriate at the school…

This paper reviews what is known about the impact on student achievement after schools are desegregated. The primary purpose of this review is to identify children that may be in need of special help during the transition to the desegregated environment and to determine the type of help needed to enhance their achievement. The use of test scores…

This pilot study sought to determine what were the effects, if any, of having integrated and all-white kindergarten children view specially prepared video-taped television sequences. These sequences featured black and white children who were unknown to the viewers and who portrayed roles in which they demonstrated simple concepts. Data from this…

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…

Classroom observation and a roster-and-rating sociometric technique were used to assess social interaction among Black and White third grade students who had attended integrated schools since kindergarten. Sex was a more significant factor in determining sociometric ratings for work and play than race. (GDC)

Examines the effects of individual-, dyadic-, group-, and classroom-level variables on cross-race friendship choices. Analysis shows that a student's environment creates both constraints on and opportunities for interracial friendships. Constraints and opportunities affect both black and white students. (PS)

Presents a study designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of Incidental Teaching (IT) procedures which are meant to facilitate child initiated language in the nursery classroom. States that IT strategies work well in multi-ethnic classes and that careful rearrangement of the classroom environment encourages student initiated conversation. (GEA)

In discussing the racial and class prejudices of teachers and administrators, this article focuses on the views of Mrs. Louise Day Hicks of Boston, as well as on the Rosenthal experiments on teacher expectations. (JW)