Students from culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) backgrounds face negative perceptions about their academic potential (Smith, C. A. (2005). School factors that contribute to the underachievement of students of color and what culturally competent school leaders can do. "Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program…

In this paper I study the impact of court-mandated school desegregation by race on student suspensions and special education classification. Simple descriptive statistics using student enrollment and outcome data collected from the largest school districts across the country in the 1970s and 1980s show that Black-White school integration was…

The statistic presented in this article demonstrate the continuance of the systematic elimination, displacement, and demotion of Black educators as a result of school desegregation. (Author/GC)

After the Supreme Court in Milliken V. Bradley determined that an interdistrict remedy for de jure segregation in the Detroit school system exceeded the constitutional violation, and remanded the case for formulation of a decree, the District Court promptly ordered submission of desegregation plans limited to the Detroit school system. After…

A historical review of intergroup relations and school segregation in St. Louis is given. The present desegregation plan is reviewed and evaluated. Although some of the criticisms have merit, the plan in its entirety is a good one which, if properly implemented, can provide Blacks with a good education. (VM)

Reconstructs the culture of an historically black school and describes how school closure during the mid-1970s affected the surrounding community. School desegregation decision makers were culturally ignorant of what made black schools good and their culturally constructive benefits. This ignorance precipitated the loss of important cultural…

The evidence regarding the effects of school desegregation upon black student achievement remains inconsistent and inadequate, despite the production of a large number of empirical investigations. It is proposed that social scientists abandon traditional research models of the school desegration process, and instead attempt to observe and…

Tested the hypothesis that White graduates of racially integrated schools (N=42) would be more tolerant than White graduates of racially segregated schools (N=49) by comparing the groups on the Dogmatism Scale. Results showed the integrated school graduates were more tolerant on the Belief-Disbelief dimension but not on total dogmatism.…

Reports a study of how the occupational patterns of black principals had been affected by desegregation: in order to provide longitudinal data, the study population comprised those black educators who had been principals of black schools before desegregation began in Florida. (Author/JM)

This study employed Office of Civil Rights enrollment data on higher education institutions to examine the relationship between segregation and the participation of blacks and whites in colleges and universities. Institutional comparisons showed that segregation was greatest in two and four year colleges where blacks had achieved the greatest…

Results suggest that integration does not move blacks along a simple continuum towards assimilation. (Author/AM)

White control over public education has not disappeared with desegregation, but has merely changed its form. Current desegregation efforts focus on giving Black children what is minimally necessary to achieve as much academically as White children, but continue to deprive Blacks of opportunities to gain power and privilege. (Author/MJL)

A study of racial attitudes among Black and White kindergarten children found that White youngsters in segregated kindergartens tended to assign a much lower percentage of positive projections to Blacks than did their counterparts in Black segregated and desegregated kindergartens. (Author/MJL)

The social changes resulting from the Brown decision are reviewed, showing the progress that has been made toward equality for Blacks. Areas where Blacks remain at a disadvantage as compared to Whites are examined. (MC)