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…

Antibusing attitudes did not even indirectly contribute to "White flight" in the Pontiac school district. Unfortunately, the solution to the problem of "White flight" involves creating an attractive urban environment and creating a society free from racism. (Author/IRT)

Discusses the reaction of Boston's working classes and poor communities to bussing, asserting that the 'have-nots'--the people of such communities as Eastie, Southie, Hyde Park, Mattapan, Dorchester, and the Bury--are being pushed up against each other and are being forced to deal with the issues of racism and territoriality. [Available from The…

This report provides figures for seven states of the cost of student transportation following desegregation. (Author/AM)

This testimony, before the May 1974 public hearings of the New York City Commission on Human Rights by the Administrator, Urban-Suburban Transfer Program and Inter district Transfer Program, West Irondequoit School District, New York, reviews a program which began with 25 minority group youngsters from one racially-imbalanced Rochester school…

Discusses developments in the desegregation of Boston public schools: in Fall 1974 the public schools of Boston underwent the first phase of a court-ordered desegregation plan, and in Fall 1975, Boston will commence Phase Two of court-ordered school desegregation. (Author/JM)

At these hearings, the following witnesses presented testimony: Dr. Thord M. Marshall, superintendent of education, Savannah, Georgia; Dr. Elbert D. Brooks, director, Metropolitan Public Schools, Nashville, Tenn.; Dr. Raymond Shelton, superintendent of schools, Hillsborough County, Tampa, Florida; Dr. John M. Franco, superintendent of schools,…

A rebuttal of a negative evaluation of busing programs published by David Armor, which focuses on the methodological shortcomings of an investigation of a voluntary busing program in metropolitan Boston called METCO done by Armor. (JM)

Illustrates the extent to which an insensitive administrative policy can disrupt the educational process and inhibit the development of viable learning situations with the case of an experimental social studies class observed during the first half of the school year 1969-70. (Author/JM)

A description of the process and outcomes of the integration of two high schools in St. Petersburg, Florida, by a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, which granted permission to reprint his series of three articles. (JM)

Discusses a case which attempts to address the problems of city-suburban segregation: its significance lies in the uniqueness of the remedy applied to Detroit and in the high probability that this type of remedy, if applicable, would be applicable to other metropolitan areas. (Author/JM)

In September, 1973, a white principal in a predominantly black elementary school in Portland, Oregon gave an interview to the city's largest daily newspaper: the resulting controversy helps sharpen the focus of the debate concerning means of achieving school integration. (JM)

Discusses the social and legal implications of the situation in which Detroit has been placed by the Supreme Court decision that lower federal courts could not involve white suburbs in the integration of urban schools, noting that the city is still required to make changes in its public schools in order to overcome racial discrimination. (JM)

The desegregation of the Boston Public School System, initiated on June 21, 1974 by Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity's Order, ended a decade of politically-inspired resistance in what is for the most part a working-class city of ethnic neighborhoods: the reassignment of about half of the first to twelfth graders began on September…

To help school districts with the task of assigning students to schools in order to achieve desegregation, the Illinois Institute of Technology has developed a system involving the use of planning techniques and computer technology that greatly simplifies the school district's job. The key features of the system are objectivity, minimum…