This report of policy samples and resources is the 15th in a continuing series of Kit-booklets issued to help school boards develop written policies in key subject areas. The intent in providing policy samples is to encourage thinking in policy terms; and to provide working papers to be edited, modified, or adapted to meet local requirements.…

Recommends that the study of public transportation be added to the social studies curriculum and outlines nine major goals of mass transit education. (DB)

A humanistic approach to a busing-pairing scheme has brought two Denver public school areas together in more ways than one. (Editor)

In a report entitled "Must We Bus? Segregated Schools and National Policy," Gary Orfield has produced one of the most exhaustive and illuminating accounts of the nation's experience with busing and the policy issues to be faced. (Author/MC)

A random sample of 600 New York City residents were interviewed by telephone in 1977 to determine the extent to which Blacks and Whites are divided over the issues of preferential treatment, racial quotas, and busing for the purpose of achieving school desegregation. (Author/MC)

In this bibliography 277 works on black education, published principally since 1968, are listed. Some problems in improving educational opportunities for blacks are outlined in the introduction. Trends in the literature and the positions of various writers in the field of black education are also criticized. (GC)

This article is a general overview of desegregation. Discussion first centers on the weakening of desegregation by federal housing programs, school board policies and opportunistic politicians, and then proceeds to the relationship of desegregation and poverty. (Author)

An important component of the school desegregation methods of Lansing, Michigan, was the Cluster Plan, which is described and evaluated in this article. (Author/AM)

Explains how geography teachers can use data from recent airline guides to help students understand graphic relationships between areas of the globe. Facts about air travel can reveal connections and interactions between urban centers and introduce locational concepts such as centrality, accessibility, periphery, and distributional patterns.…

Presents an overview of selected university research programs within the U.S. Department of Transportation, with a focus on grants and contracts awarded to historically Black colleges and universities. Describes a training program for urban transportation research, conducted at Howard University in 1982-83. (GC)

Introduces optical experiments and observations for an airplane passenger including scratches on a window, scattering of light, and reflection images. Provides several diagrams. (YP)

There are two basic approaches offered in current computerized transportation routing and scheduling programs: the mathematical programming approach and the intuitive optimization approach. Lists questions that an informed buyer should ask of the routing and scheduling company. (MLF)

A survey of the parents of French immersion students and the parents of regular English-language program students in four Winnipeg, Manitoba districts revealed that non-immersion parents generally question the viability of immersion programs, prefer to send their children to neighborhood schools, and have stronger feelings than immersion parents…

Unable to provide needed transportation for 1,000 high school students, a California school district cooperated with the county transit district to bus the students. The successful project included extra buses on existing routes, adjusted school hours, special bus stops at schools, and free student passes. (MCG)

In an effort to serve a broader spectrum of needs in the community, the New Castle County, Delaware, parks system has moved into new and challenging areas of human services. (SK)