Two of the goals of elementary school are to help students to develop a healthy sense of identity and learn social communication skills. However, there are many factors figure into students' experience during their early years of school. Othering by the other sex is one of these factors, especially in Saudi Arabia, which has just sex-desegregated…

The paper presents the perspective of headmasters and educational staff in a sample of Arab high schools in Galilee, Israel, employing and serving a mixed population comprising Moslem and Christian communities. The paper describes efforts made by these schools to bring people closer, and examines programs designed for this purpose, and factors…

This paper describes teacher attitudes and circumstances during and after Dayton City School's successful desegregation. Teachers were moved to integrated schools relatively early and easily. As a group, they did not become involved in the 1972-76 busing brouhaha that accompanied court-ordered desegregation. Fearing the destabilization of their…

Teachers' concerns in the recently desegregated Willa Cather Elementary School include: (1) problems arising from busing; (2) unfamiliar behavior among Black children, with whom White teachers have not had previous experience; (3) disadvantaged family and educational backgrounds of Black students; (4) a wide range of achievement levels among…

Reports briefly on studies dealing with the roles of teachers, principals, school boards, and superintendents in making school desegregation succeed or fail. (Author/AM)

Describes the program and some results of an institute for selected teachers and administrators from four area school systems, held during a six week period in the spring of 19709 (JM)

This article reports on a study which examined the 37 San Bernardino elementary schools in 1973 and in 1976. It was found that this school district's part time voluntary school desegregation program has brought about almost no change in teacher or parent attitudes. (Author/AM)

Profiles Jack Stewart, principal of one of two New Orleans schools chosen to begin "token" integration in 1960. He recalls and reflects upon community and faculty reactions to integration. (LHW)

The study examined the effects of bussing for integration, teachers' attitudes toward such a program, and their influences on interracial classroom discipline problems. (NQ)

Reports a study designed to determine if communication problems actually exist as perceived by classroom teachers. Negro and white teachers were found to perceive communication problems differently. More white than Negro teachers were dissatisfied, and reported more communication and discipline problems with students of the opposite race. (DM)

A 2-YEAR RESEARCH STUDY INVOLVING 6- AND 7-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN IN NEW ORLEANS AND 16- AND 17-YEAR-OLD ADOLESCENTS IN ATLANTA SOUGHT TO PROVIDE INFORMATION FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF CHILD PSYCHIATRY ON THE EFFECTS OF DESEGREGATION ON THE LIVES OF BOTH WHITE AND NEGRO CHILDREN IN SOUTHERN SCHOOLS. NEGRO CHILDREN WHO INITIATE COURT-ORDERED DESEGREGATION IN…

Teachers and principals who were involuntarily reassigned to integrate faculties in the Chicago public schools were surveyed about their transfer experiences. Transferred teachers but not transferred principals believed the reassignments would result in a decline in student achievement. Most transferred staff rated their integration assignment as…

Shortly after the Kalamazoo Public Schools adopted an extensive desegregation plan based on a two-way busing approach patterned after the Berkeley California Schools, a study designed to reveal strengths and weaknesses of the proposed plan was commissioned. It was originally intended to collect appropriate baseline data prior to desegregation and…

Five teachers from four cities, Chicago, Hattiesburg, San Francisco, and Detroit, present their views of desegregation. (Editor/RK)