After court rulings forced the integration of public schools in the south, many parents transferred their children to parochial schools. Thus, many parochial schools throughout the nation have, intentionally or unintentionally, promoted racial isolation in the schools. (DM)

Describes the threatened extinction of Black principalships in the South, and decries the threatened loss of leadership to the Negro community that this implies. (JF)

Account of: (1) Supreme Court hearings involving school segregation cases in Charlotte, North Carolina, Mobile, Alabama, and Athens, Georgia; and, (2) school integration progress in other states. (DM)

Racial preference, knowledge of racial differences, and racial identification of lower class Negro and white urban preschoolers were examined. An attempt was also made to determine the effect of an enriched preschool program on these three response measures. Negro as well as white children rejected brown dolls, possibly a result of parental…

Parents of students who transferred from public to private schools after court ordered school desegregation in Louisville, Kentucky, were interviewed regarding their attitudes toward busing, school desegregation, and the public schools. Also examined were differences in parents with children in Catholic, mainstream private, and church related…

Describes the more interesting findings of a telephone survey of 304 persons in the Milwaukee area, using the 25-item Desegregation Attitude Test. The study demonstrated the persistence of racial prejudice and a higher resistence to desegregation among suburban and less educated respondents. (Author/PGD)

Reviews the role of the federal government in the development of national school desegregation policy over the past 35 years. Concludes that desegregation requires active federal support, but desegregation effects are limited by political backlash and conflicting judicial interpretations. Suggests a future federal role. (FMW)

Believing that their desegregation plans met court-ordered guidelines, three Arkansas school districts (Little Rock, North Little Rock, and Pulaski County) found that U.S. District Judge Woods had scrapped these plans and appointed a New York desegregation expert (Eugene Reville) in charge of the three districts. Sidebars discuss salary and court…

In August 1986, the U.S. District Court ordered three Pulaski County (Arkansas) school systems to develop an interdistrict magnet school program (with a review committee) as part of their desegregation plan. The districts are progressing steadily toward their racial balance goals. A sidebar provides tips for designing a successful magnet school…

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…

Integration has become a cliche in enrollment management and student services circles. The term is used to describe everything from integrated marketing to seamless services. Often, it defines organizational structures, processes, student information systems, and even communities. In Robert Sevier's article in this issue of "College and…

"Brown" had a tragic consequence: the displacement, dismissal, and demotion of thousands of African American educators, in particular principals, in the South. Although the lack of diversity in today's teaching force has multiple origins, a reexamination of one of its roots deepens our understanding of the past, illuminates the present,…

Seven papers commissioned by the National Institute of Education in order to clarify the state of recent knowledge about the effects of school desegregation on the academic achievement of black students are contained in this report. The papers, which analyze 19 "core" empirical studies on this topic, include: (1) "What Have Black Children Gained…

Discusses the reaction of Boston's working classes and poor communities to bussing, asserting that the 'have-nots'--the people of such communities as Eastie, Southie, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Dorchester, and the Bury--are being pushed up against each other and are being forced to deal with the issues of racism and territoriality. [Available from The…