A close examination of Memphis, Tennessee, public school desegregation since Brown vs. Board of Education demonstrates how successful many southern communities have been in circumventing the decision. By 1981 White flight to the suburbs and increased enrollment in private schools left a public school system 76 percent Black and 24 percent White.…

Proposes that voluntary interdistrict programs should be seriously considered as a major desegregation strategy. Reviews social, demographic, and legislative trends that support this proposal and describes conditions that are required for such programs to flourish. (GC)

This series of articles describes four promising practices. Included are (1) "North Carolina Central University's Institute on Desegregation: A Center for Interinstitutional Research"; (2) "Beyond the Status Quo: Merging Feminist Studies with Teacher Education"; (3) "Instructing Our Newest Minority: The Haitian"; and (4) "Sex-Role Stereotyping: A…

Answers in the affirmative the question of whether school integration is still a good and desirable goal. (Author/RK)

Examines how selected fiscal incentives for open enrollment might help to achieve greater racial and socioeconomic integration. (Author/RK)

Argues that the eradication of all state supported racial subordination in the public schools was the essence of the Brown decision. Where separation cannot be promptly remedied, as in majority black districts, civil rights should seek, and courts order, plans designed to involve black parents in the school process in facilities are held…

This response endeavors to deal with the specific contentions of the Bell thesis, asserting that it represents nothing more than a capitulation and submission to rapacious unconstitutional behavior that society expects no other group to endure, and discusses the moral, as distinguished from the practical, objection that black parents and children…

Argues that "quality education" is used these days as a polite way to discuss matters relating to school desegregation and other interracial matters; the concept is discussed as it relates to how much is learned, and the manner in which children are socialized to become citizens of the society. (Author/JM)

A compilation of regional reports forecasting the coming academic years: financial woes trouble the Midwest and Northeast; Atlanta still carries the controversy sparked by the Atlanta Compromise;'' Denver is trying to adjust its standing as the first Northern city with court ordered busing; and, Los Angeles combats vandalism. (Author/JM)

Summarizes and assesses the empirical findings from social science research in the areas of integrated and compensatory education, considers the role of the social scientist in policy-making in these areas, and concludes that this role should yield to a principle of voluntarism which would permit maximum citizen choice. (Author/JM)

Beginning with the Brown vs. Topeka'' case of 1954 and continuing to the Equal Educational Opportunity bill of 1972, the author traces a series of court cases, laws, pronouncements and research studies concerning educational opportunity and the implications of the busing concept for desegregation and integration. (Author/JM)

Reports the results of a national survey conducted for the Commission on Civil Rights, which found that the public does not know much about the school busing to which it is supposedly so vehemently opposed, and that that lack of knowledge affects where it stands on the issue. (Author/JM)

Argues both that there is no evidence to suggest that we abandon our long-time commitment to quality integrated education; and that we must oppose vigorously those national and local forces attempting to deprive local school districts of one important desegregation technique--transportation. (Author/JM)

Reviews the growth of desegregation, evaluates various techniques, and points out economic, social, and psychological constraints on desegregation. (DS)

A compendium of reports on relevant events on the Federal and State levels covering the period October-November, 1972. (JM)