Combined efforts of school staff, community leaders, parents and students have allowed Detroit's Desegregation Plan not only to be implemented peacefully, but also to become the springboard for systematically improving the quality of the Detroit public schools. (Author/WI)

This article summarizes the positive educational, social, and political effects that can result from the advent of public school desegregation. It distinguishes these from unplanned, coincidental outcomes for students, such as academic achievement. (Author)

Notes that Houston's voluntary approach to desegregation, including the magnet schools, seems to be meeting with both judicial and public approval. (Author/AM)

Among the suggestions made are the following: bussing students on a voluntary basis, integrating teachers as well as students through the voluntary transfer plan, and bussing of kindergarten children only to avoid uprooting students from their established classrooms. (Author/AM)

Advances the proposition that the emphasis on social science data in school desegregation litigation is misplaced; that the supporting basis for "Brown v. Board Of Education" was the equal protection clause; and that the use of social science in future school litigation should focus on how to improve desegregated educational programs…

Advocates the use of teleconferencing as a tool to reducing inequality in educational opportunity. Claims that such technology can decrease racial isolation among Black students and foster contact among Black educators and leaders. (GC)

Examines some of the problems connected with "busing" and school integration, looks at the procedures used in carrying out desegregation, and suggests why some desegregation plans have been successful while some are not. (Author/RK)

A variety of reasons for why court-ordered desegregation and bussing did not trigger massive white flight from the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system are given. (Author/AM)

Evaluates six one-day workshops which were conducted to assist teams of public school teachers and principals, involving both blacks and whites, in resolving problems relating to the desegregating of schools. It was recommended that findings of the behavioral sciences be incorporated into workshop design and that workshops be organized in ways to…

Discusses integration from the point of view of the black student on a predominantly white campus. (GB)

Examines, from a practical viewpoint, the problems and issues related to metropolitanizing public schools by judicial decree. Reviews the significant relevant cases and extracts the controlling principles from them. Applies those principles in an effort to answer some fundamental practical questions. (Author)

Discusses desegregation plans for school systems and the various techniques such as rezoning, grade restructuring, and others involved. (DM)

The College d'Enseignement Secondaire (CES) gathers under the same roof and the same head the types of teaching which were formerly dispensed in establishments separated geographically and administratively. Problems resulting from integrating children from differing social and cultural backgrounds are discussed and solutions proposed. (JMB)

The Laboratory School-Teacher Education Module, Western Regional School Desegregation Project of the University of California at Riverside was designed to help a select group of teachers find some of the answers in solving problems of school desegregation. (SB)