IT IS HELD THAT DEFACTO SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION HAVE NO PRACTICAL DEFINITIONS. RACIAL BALANCE ALONE DOES NOT OFFER AN ACCURATE DEFINITION OF SEGREGATION. STATISTICS WERE PRESENTED ON THE DEGREE OF RACIAL SEGREGATION IN THE DISTRICT. THE INFLUX OF NEW PUPILS FROM OUTSIDE THE DISTRICT WAS CONSIDERED. SCHOOL POLICIES AND PRACTICES IN RELATION TO…

NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOLS HAVE LONG BEEN A PART OF COMMUNITY PLANNING, HOWEVER, A PRIMARY NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCE OF THESE SCHOOLS IS SEGREGATION. THE SCHOOLS IN THE LOW ECONOMIC AREAS ARE SLIGHTED, AND THE CHILD IN THESE SCHOOLS IS SURROUNDED WITH PUPILS WHO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS HE HAS, THUS PROVIDING LITTLE MOTIVATION FOR IMPROVEMENT. SOME…

IT IS SUGGESTED THAT PHILADELPHIA HAS NOW ENTERED THE SECOND PHASE OF THE INTEGRATION MOVEMENT. NOW THAT THE SCHOOL BOARD AND A RESPONSIBLE SEGMENT OF THE COMMUNITY ARE FOR INTEGRATION, THE ACT OF INTEGRATION IS OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN PHILADELPHIA IS OUTLINED. ONE PART OF THE MOVEMENT DEALT WITH…

THE BALTIMORE CITY SCHOOLS IN 1956 ADOPTED AS SCHOOL POLICY THE SUPREME COURT DECISION ON SEGREGATION. THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE (1) TO DESCRIBE WHAT HAS BEEN THE EFFECT OF THESE LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE POLICIES AND (2) THE REASONS FOR FAILURE TO ATTAIN THE IDEALS OF THE LAW AND SCHOOL POLICY. A DESEGREGATED SCHOOL WAS DEFINED AS ONE…

ALTHOUGH THE ISSUE OF DE JURE SEGREGATION SEEMS TO BE SETTLED, THE DIFFICULTIES ASSOCIATED WITH DE FACTO SEPARATION OF THE RACES ARE ONLY NOW EMERGING. THE SIX PRINCIPLES PROPOSED BY THE ADVISORY COMMISSION ON HUMAN RELATIONS AND COMMUNITY TENSIONS TO THE NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ARE PRESENTED AS GUIDES FOR PARENTS AND SCHOOL…

CERTAIN FACTORS AFFECTING FACULTY DESEGREGATION SUCH AS DESEGREGATION PREPARATION, TEACHER PERCEPTION AND QUALIFICATION, COMMUNITY STRUCTURE, AND SCHOOL FACILITIES WERE STUDIED. THE INTERVIEW SCHEDULE CONSISTED OF TWO PARTS. PART ONE WAS DESIGNED TO INVESTIGATE PREPARATION, UTILIZATION, ASSIGNMENT, AND OBSERVATIONS. PART TWO WAS DESIGNED TO…

This booklet was written to describe and evaluate the role of magnet schools in desegregation plans. The author presents case studies of two moderately successful magnet schools, the Martin Luther King Middle School in Boston and the Clifton Multi-Age Magnet School in Cincinnati. He then discusses magnet schools in the context of desegregation and…

The lack of national concern for the well-being of the black race has produced the young black militants to whom US society is reacting today. They represent the children who were promised equal educational opportunity in 1954 and are aware that only token efforts have been made since that time to effectively desegregate schools. An alliance of…

In 1966 when initial planning for desegregation in Peoria, Illinois began, minority students were concentrated in 9 of Peoria's 39 schools. Twenty of the city's schools had white enrollments of more than 98%, indicating the most minimal percentage of minority students in more than half the city's schools. Four schools were totally white. The…

The problems resulting from the 1956 desegregation of Clinton High School in Tennessee are related by one teacher involved with the school. She describes the lives of the people of Clinton and tells of the problems Negro children were confronted with during the first year of integration, in an effort to obtain an equal education. The conclusions…

Sixty thousand students from the Los Angeles Unified School District are being bused. Parents are reacting to the legal order. In addition, increasing numbers of teacher strikes are occurring around the nation. The desegregation program taking place in Los Angeles, and the effects of teacher activism in other parts of the country, are described.…

Concludes that desegregation (ultimately integration) actually helped to improve North Chicago educationally and financially. (Author/AM)

This report provides figures for seven states of the cost of student transportation following desegregation. (Author/AM)

Concludes that while the computer may conceivably assist in desegregation planning, it cannot substitute for carefully considered educational and social policy. Criticisms of the computer plan center on the impoverished educational and social policy behind it. (Author/AM)

Argues that any policy of voluntary busing should, to bring population stability as well as equal rights, encompass the metropolitan area as a whole, removing the suburbs from their protected status. (Author/JM)