General (Statewide) school desegregation trends, as well as specific data from various Massachusetts school districts are presented in this report. The first section compares State support of desegregation efforts in Massachusetts with that of other northern States, outlines areas for which State funding is disbursed, and describes the relation…

In a factory city that responded explosively to bused integration, author finds the system working and the children happy." (Editor)

Relationships between classroom racial balance and third graders' interracial attitudes were analyzed. Interracial attitudes were more favorable in balanced than in unbalanced classes. Results suggest that classroom racial balance is strongly related to students' interracial attitudes. (Author)

Presents an overview of the problems surrounding racial integration and school busing in Boston. Five conclusions are drawn. (DW)

Desegregation efforts of the 1960s and 1970s changed the racial structure of public schools and have persisted intact thorough the 1980s. In a study of 960 desegregated school districts, 87 percent exhibited a segregation score close to the lowest score the district ever attained. No districts have returned to preexisting segregation levels.…

Notes the well-known scholars, politicians, and other individuals who are joining the trend to abandon busing as a method of achieving integration. (IRT)

Argues that any study which purports to examine tipping must look both at whether or not the community has a racially balanced school system and whether or not the black/white ratios in the community are shifting. (Author/AM)

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 report consists of seven papers by experts on integration, segregation, and separatism in education. The articles, expressing divergent opinions, include four presentations on inner-city education, two papers on Black Studies at the college level, and one paper on the "new" urban university. Authors and titles of the presentations are: Paul…

Presents the results of a questionnaire mailed to Black school superintendents. Discusses their responses on such issues as racial balance strategies, busing, the educational benefits of desegregation, and cultural identity of Black students. (GC)

Examines research demonstrating that forced busing does not guarantee equal education or raise minority achievement. Advocates a first choice, free transportation system to fulfill the intent of Brown v. Board of Education. (SK)

Discusses the positive and negative consequences of school desegregation in Boston, and focuses particularly on the role of Judge Arthur Garrity. Asserts that, however much desegregation created racial imbalances by encouraging White flight, it has led to the establishment of a school system in which quality and equality can finally exist. (KH)

Discusses legal and educational issues arising from the recent desegregation case, Bradley vs the School Board of the City of Richmond. The central theme of the analysis is that the Bradley decision expanded the white majority thesis -- the proposition that whites must be in the majority in all schools in order to achieve equality of educational…

Suggestions by a Southern educator for handling situations created by busing and resulting integration of secondary school students. (SP)

This analysis compares student test scores before and after school busing in New Castle County, Delaware, in an attempt to see if busing to achieve racial balance reduces the achievement gap between black and white students. School authorities pre-tested students with the California Achievement Test (CAT) in 1978-79, the first year of busing, and…