This report describes housing desegregation gains in Louisville and Jefferson County, Kentucky, largely caused by school desegregation. The work of Judge James F. Gordon, who presided over the school desegregation plan, is cited as instrumental in aiding in this process. He ruled that no child in the minority in a neighborhood would be used for…

Statistical data on student and faculty desegregation supplied by the Jefferson County (Kentucky) Board of Education for the 1978-79 and 1979-80 school years were analyzed. The number of schools not in compliance with school desegregation guidelines was reduced between 1978-79 and 1979-80. The inclusion of first graders in the desegregation plan…

To bring about enrollment and hiring equity in education, much more forceful affirmative action efforts than those of the past are demanded. This article discusses high school, undergraduate, and graduate enrollment and completion; minority faculty in higher education; consequences of human resources underutilization and underdevelopment; and…

This ninth annual study of the status of desegregation in the Dade County Public Schools shows the racial and ethnic composition of student and employee groups throughout the school system and has tables with selected data from prior years for ease in noting changes which might have occurred. This report contains data to assist school officials in…

This study reviews the state-financed program of racial integration in metropolitan Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Public Schools. The integration program rested on the basic assumption that with enough time, state financial assistance, and new spending, racial integration would significantly improve academic achievement and close the gap between minority…

The Metropolitan Planning Project of Greater Boston (Massachusetts) was established in 1974 to promote voluntary collaboration between urban and suburban elementary and secondary school systems for the elimination of racial and ethnic student isolation. This report examines programs that have emerged under the plan, describes the demographic and…