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)

Bussing may be necessary to abolish an inequality of instruction where it exists, but in the long run it is better to equalize the quality of all grade and high schools by the adoption of Federal standards than by bussing. (NQ)

This report presents data for the 1999-2000 school year on 86 of 91 private choice schools in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These schools enrolled 7,430 of 7,913 Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) students. These enrollment data were compared with enrollment data for all 99,990 students in the Milwaukee school system. Religious schools enrolled most…

The development of several plans based on linear programming and geographic methodology will permit school administrators to make better decisions concerning the planning of school districts: where to locate boundaries, how to eliminate overcrowding, where to locate new classrooms, and how to overcome de facto segregation. The primal and dual…

The Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Department of Justice believes that emphasis on quality, not quotas, will assure equal educational opportunity for all postsecondary students. (SK)

Proposes that the courts order school authorities to cut programs as necessary to fund desegregation rather than order a tax that has been prohibited in the state or locale. Available from Michigan Law Review, Hutchins Hall, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. (Author/IRT)

Notes that the question of equal educational opportunity and how it can be obtained for all America's children remains unanswered, and considers trends and events that have emerged either in spite of or because of pertinent court decisions or national priorities. (Author/AM)

A number of research studies document the effectiveness of magnet schools--both in breaking down racial isolation and in providing high-quality education programs. However, according to Kimberly West, writing in the "Yale Law Journal,""many magnet schools are rife with racially segregated classrooms." (MLF)

Seamus Hodgkinson was raised in Northern Ireland during "The Troubles," a time of religious unrest and violence. Thousands of lives were lost as hatred between Catholic and Protestant groups escalated into intense battles. In 1957, Hodgkinson left Northern Ireland to accept a teaching position at the newly formed Doane Stuart School in…

A report on the school integration controversy in Boston by one of the coordinators of the National Student Coalition Against Racism (NASCAR), an organization that has been building national support for school desegregation in Boston, and by a former staff member of NASCAR who has toured the U. S. to explain the issues involved in the Boston…

Findings of this study are said to be consistent with the assumption that HEW would be more effective in enforcing desegregation than the courts. Most important finding is said to be the limited amount of explained variance attributable to the Federal courts as enforcement agencies. [Available from Sage Publications, 275 South Beverly Drive,…

A survey of the attitudes of 90 black high school students toward their school and its white counterpart points toward the significance of prior knowledge of black student experiences at the white high school as an explanatory variable for the failure of blacks, in substantial numbers, to choose to attend formerly all-white schools in…

Designed to aid school personnel considering school choice as a possible desegregation method, this booklet explains the principles of controlled choice, presents an overall plan and flow chart, and reviews the types of organizations that might be developed. Controlled choice is a desegregation method that is voluntary, empowers parents and school…

Desegregation, particularly court ordered busing, has been viewed independently of the complex historic and economic factors in which these policies are rooted. By focusing on the educational aspects of a social or political change the importance of various other factors which operate outside the school but which influence school programs and…