This paper argues that social scientists serving as monitors and evaluators can help to implement school desegregation plans by encouraging citizen involvement and can serve as an independent yet sympathetic source of criticism for the school system. (Author)

This article focuses on the city of St. Louis and Ferguson-Florissant Reorganized School Districts and studies their implementation of desegregation programs. (Author/AM)

Argues that metropolitan school desegregation plans may reinforce problems associated with segregation and may worsen the situation of low-income Blacks. Describes an urban-suburban exchange plan and argues that it provides only the semblance of justice. Asserts that what poor Black students need most is neighborhood schools, effective teachers,…

Under St. Louis County's new desegregation plan: (1) the heaviest burden was placed upon Black students and on the weaker original districts; (2) popular action regarding desegregation was discouraged; (3) federal agencies did not monitor the district's conduct; and (4) the court withdrew from the district, producing conflict between school…