Notes that the question of equal educational opportunity and how it can be obtained for all America's children remains unanswered, and considers trends and events that have emerged either in spite of or because of pertinent court decisions or national priorities. (Author/AM)

Concludes that as integrated schooling has never really been tried on a large scale and desegregated schooling has failed miserably, integrated schooling as an operational concept deserves the attention of education planners. (Author/AM)

The effects of the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas decision of 1954 reached some 160 million people and had implications for about 40 percent of all school children in the United States. The impetus for social reform emanating from this decision extended beyond school children and the public school arena to the civil rights movement…

A review of the various actions, reactions, and social implications of various court decisions and decrees on the desegregation process. (EH)