Eighteen years after the Supreme Court rendered its decision in Fordice, many states have complied somewhat or not at all to its mandates. This has been particularly evident in Maryland, where the presidents of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are pressuring the state to fulfill its commitment with the Office of Civil Rights…

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)

Argues that the court case Missouri v. Jenkins III (1995) reflects a trend toward relaxation in the assurance of equal educational opportunities. This examination of Missouri's petition to end judicial oversight in its largest public school district has disturbing implications for educational equity. (SLD)

Compares school desegregation in Dallas and Boston. Demonstrates how, in Dallas, successful leadership styles have brought about public acceptance of and community involvement in the desegregation process. (GC)

A close examination of Memphis, Tennessee, public school desegregation since Brown vs. Board of Education demonstrates how successful many southern communities have been in circumventing the decision. By 1981 White flight to the suburbs and increased enrollment in private schools left a public school system 76 percent Black and 24 percent White.…

Argues that greater caution is required when drawing conclusions from statistical results than the Armor study has done, and describes the "Prospects" study (begun in 1989), the largest longitudinal study of educational outcomes conducted in the United States. "Prospects" provides much data useful in evaluating the school…

Focuses on four topics: (1) the Irish stronghold of South Boston; (2) the role of the Boston School Committee in the lack of enforcement of pro-integration legislation; (3) four types of by-products of the bussing issue--political implications, violence, the changed meaning of bussing, and parental fears; and (4) the implementation of Boston's two…

Suggests several criteria for the short-term evaluation of school desegregation: (1) racial balancing; (2) equity; (3) educational improvements; and (4) citizen participation. Evaluates school desegregation in Milwaukee according to these criteria and judges it to have been a mixed success. (GC)

Considers the role of social-science research in school desegregation efforts as a background to this collection of written reports, depositions, and testimony in the March 1996 hearings about whether the St. Louis (Missouri) school district had achieved unitary status, having done all it could to eliminate the wrongs of a racially dual school…