The first requirement for educating a child in a desegregated school is for the instructional and administrative personnel of the school to become aware of the issues and problems incident to school desegregation and to seek alternatives which might be employed to reduce tensions and insecurity among children. Consequently, an inservice program…

The problem of the desegregation process in public schools, beginning with the Supreme Court decision Brown v the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, is that it is conceived of as an artificial climate imposed by ratios and busing rather than a learning situation wherein ethnocentricity is developed as a positive attribute. Integration, however,…

This paper examines the major social science contributions to racial balance as a policy alternative to the unequal educational opportunity suffered by Afro-Americans. It is argued that, although the policy is considered by advocates and the courts to be a remedy for discrimination, it is in fact a continuation of white dominance, or racism. It is…