We evaluate the integrating and segregating effects of three distinct school choice programs in San Diego. We go beyond the traditional question of racial integration and examine the integration of students by test scores, parental education levels, and language status. In addition to measuring the net integrative effects of school choice, we also…

THE MAJOR PROBLEM OF THIS PREPARATORY RESEARCH PROGRAM WAS TO ASCERTAIN THE FEASIBILITY OF MAKING A FULL-SCALE STUDY OF THE DYNAMICS OF SCHOOL INTEGRATION CONTROVERSIES IN NEW YORK CITY. METHODS INVOLVED INTERVIEWING AND OBSERVING LEADERS AT CITYWIDE AND NEIGHBORHOOD LEVELS, INCLUDING SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS, TEACHERS, PARENT…

Twenty documents discussing the beneficial effects of school desegregation, particularly on black children, and thirteen studies finding desegregation harmful are cited and their major findings and research methods described briefly in this document. Essentially an annotated bibliography, the report concludes by summarizing briefly the results of…

Antecedents and correlates of interracial behavior among high school students were assessed. Separate questionnaires were prepared for white and black students so that specific items referred explicitly to members of one's own race or to members of the other race. These questionnaires were completed by 750 students in an integrated high school…

This study measured the effectiveness of teacher education programs in modifying cross-cultural attitudes through Osgood's Semantic Differential (SD) techniques, coupled with factor and pattern similarity analyses. The five concepts rated were desegregation, discipline, instructional technique, professionalism, and students. Subjects were 51 black…

Critically examines James S. Coleman's stated views on public school desegregation and public policy, asserting that the use of empirical research on the effects of desegregation to form policy on the pursuance of integration overlooks the rights blacks have as citizens to integrated public facilities, including schools. (JM)

Because of changing concepts of equal and effective education and challenges to traditional assumptions of the desirability of integration and racial mixing, there is now much uncertainty as to the meaning of the Brown decision, especially in Northern cities. (EH)

This document presents the Commission on Civil Rights' findings and recommendations on the desegregation process, specifically the planning phase, in Los Angeles, California. It is the result of Commission investigations in Los Angeles which began in October 1976 and ended in a three-day hearing beginning on December of 1976. The report also…

BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, IS A COASTAL CITY OF THE DEEP SOUTH. IT IS 174 MILES FROM ALBANY WHERE THOUSANDS OF NEGROES MARCHED TO JAIL IN THE SUMMER OF 1962 PROTESTING INTOLERABLE CONDITIONS. AT THE SAME TIME BRUNSWICK WAS QUIETLY NEGOTIATING THE DESEGREGATION OF ITS LUNCH COUNTERS. WHILE RACIAL TENSION BROKE OUT IN OTHER NEIGHBORING COMMUNITIES,…

IT IS REPORTED THAT LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, HAS MADE NOTABLE PROGRESS IN THE ELIMINATION OF RACE DISCRIMINATION WITH A MINIMUM OF TURMOIL AND WITH THE APPROVAL OF A SUBSTANTIAL MAJORITY OF ITS CITIZENS OF BOTH RACES. OF ITS FOUR MAIN DESEGREGATION HURDLES--PUBLIC SCHOOLS, PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS, EMPLOYMENT, AND HOUSING--THE FIRST TWO HAVE BEEN…

This report is concerned with 3 major problems. The answers to these problems were obtained from the results of 2 surveys. A. The two most serious problems faced by the cross-over teachers (teachers teaching children who differ racially from themselves) in the sample, in rank order, were: discipline and classroom control; and unfamiliarity with…

Focuses on the issue of whether the implementation of school desegregation significantly increases the decline in percentage of resident white. Presents data from a study conducted in 86 Northern school districts from a 91-city study. Data were obtained from statistics published by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare beginning in 1967.…

States that studies by Cataldo, Munford, Bosco and Robin, Mercer, and Koponen strongly support a view that massive white flight is an avoidable phenomenon, whereas Colmena, who failed to report any of these studies in his April 1975 paper, represents white flight as an inevitable consequence of mandatory desegregation in the largest cities…

This bibliography of desegregation and inservice education literature was developed by the WIEDS (Ways to Improve Education in Desegregated Schools) Project in Austin, Texas. This bibliography is said to be a by-product of research done on successful desegregation/integration strategies which could be applied to the planning of staff and…