Statistical tables prepared by the Office of Civil Rights and released January 14, 1971, relating to the extent of interracial schooling. (RJ)

Concludes that it is illogical and unjust to punish the alien child for the alleged misdeeds of his parents. If communities are unwilling to or cannot afford to provide free education for them, the federal government should allocate the funds. (Author)

Describes a three-year case study of a young Black boy at a day care center to illustrate that racial tracking through exclusion from structured learning activities and group experiences can lead to social incompetence in young minority children. (Author/MJL)

Presents the text of a unanimous Supreme Court opinion delivered by Justice Douglas, as well as two separate concurring opinions, which granted non-English speaking Chinese students' petition for relief from unequal and unconstitutional educational opportunities resulting from an absence of English language instruction. (Author/SF)

A seminar designed to ease school integration tension reveals that teacher/student attitudes and concern can cause problems as well as solve them. The seminar also shows teachers that there is a difference between black and white culture. (Author/AM)

Notes that in the process of desegregation, the district has retained the neighborhood flavor of schools with expanded community, paired and clustered schools, and has used magnet type programs to encourage peripheral area white students to opt for programs in the central city. (Author/AM)

Discusses a recently completed study which examined the flow of students through the educational system of Wisconsin, with particular attention to the relationship between educational achievement ethnicity to inform public policy makers. Also discussed is a proposed cohort survival model of the movement of students of different ethnic groups.…

The text of a statement by the Director, Office of Civil Rights, H.E.W., submitted to the Civil Rights Oversight Subcommittee of the House Committee on the Judiciary, June 14, 1972. (Author/JM)

In testimony before the May 1974 public hearings of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, the Consultant on Bilingual Education for Texans for Educational Excellence notes that organization's investigation of the El Paso Independent School District and of other school districts in the southwest identified discriminatory practices other…

Testimony before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights in May 1974 by the project director of a projected in-depth review of the delivery of educational services to over 700,000 minority children attending the New York City Public School system asserted to be the largest civil rights review of its kind in U.S. history.…

A larger proportion of the population, including the poor and minority groups, want higher education both for job mobility and for creative use of leisure time: but the school system is not equipped to educate youngsters whose parents are not already in the middle class. (Author/JM)

Suggests that school systems refrain from policies of token dispersal unless black parents specifically request such a program, and proposes that a small number of predominantly white schools allow integration with larger percentages of minority students. (Author/AM)

Argues that the basic problem with standardized tests to test Mexican American students is that they lack "ethnic validity": they do not accurately or appropriately account for cultural, linguistic, or experiential ethnic differences. (Author/JM)

A survey of developments pertinent to school integration and the education of minority group children on both a federal and a state-by-state basis. (JM)

Many aspects of knowledge needed to function in the mainstream society can be acquired more effectively through the use of a culturally relevant curriculum. This belief is based on the transfer principle, which implies that knowledge of the basic skills is not specific to any culture or language. (Author/EB)