A one-day in-service workshop was held for elementary and middle school teachers in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Each workshop consisted of large-group presentations followed by small-group discussions by participants, who were divided into nine groups. Presentations concerned techniques to aid motivation among multicultural and multiracial…

Results of a report issued by the Education Commission of the States based on a study covering 1969 to 1973 and related to the general trend of declining science achievement scores are discussed. Desegregation is the prime variable studied. (EB) Aspect of National Assessment (NAEP) dealt with in this document: Results (Race) (Regional).

Discusses some of the deleterious results that school desegregation has had for Black children. (Author/AM)

The "freedom of choice" strategy is discussed as an alternative to the cultural deficit orientation that underlies current school desegregation strategies, since the latter are failing to make any educational difference for Black children. (Author/AM)

Discusses some aspects of the evolving American group identity and the "new ethnicity" as they underlie both large and small problems of school desegregation. (Author/AM)

The major hypothesis of this study, that the long term effect of integration would not be a negative influence on the psychological well-being of the black student, is supported by the results. (Author)

The following questions are discussed: (1) What is the impact of central city desegregation on the totality of metropolitan segregation?, (2) What is happening to metropolitan areas?, (3) What is the future of central cities?, and (4) What is the role of the schools? (Author/AM)

For the hundreds of thousands of minority children contained in the urban schools of the nation by de jure policies and practices, the promise of Brown vs. the Board of Education will prove empty and illusory, unless the problems of metropolitan-wide, interdistrict desegregation are met. (Author/AM)

In this article, two responses to Diane Ravitch's article, "The "White Flight' Controversy," contained in the Spring issue of The Public Interest, are presented. (AM)

In general, the seven magnet high schools haven't worked as a way of keeping whites in Philadelphia's schools. Despite the millions spent on new magnet schools, nearly all of them are more segregated today than when they opened. (Author)

Notes that the strong and persistent under current of opposition to bussing among parents in the Pontiac schools creates a barrier to meaningful integration of the schools, even though it does not interfere with desegregation. (Author/AM)

As part of a larger project, the authors tapped local elite and school officials' perceptions of the difficulties encountered in dismantling dual schools in Georgia school districts. (Author/AM)

Notes that by all the objective measures available, Evanston High has maintained the academic standard of its white students, improved the academic standard of its black students, and reduced segregation by test score. (Author/AM)

Reports briefly on studies dealing with the roles of teachers, principals, school boards, and superintendents in making school desegregation succeed or fail. (Author/AM)

Maintains that Franklin Wilson's 1985 finding that white flight resulting from school desegregation is short-term and unaffected by the nature of the plan is incorrect. Presents new data showing that the effects are long-term and depend mainly upon whether the plan is voluntarily implemented or enforced by the government. (GEA)