Opposes the proposed legislative attempts to declare virtually null and void the 14th Amendment as it applies to race and public education; and provides research analysis to support this position. (DM)

Discusses the busing controversy, the increasing demand for community control of schools, and the general discontent with the public school system through an analysis of school desegregation in Chicago. (Author)

Reviews the empirical studies dealing with school desegregation and racial cleavage which have appeared since the 1954 Supreme Court decision. Focuses on patterns and consequences of interracial association, and attitude change relevant to racial cleavage. (DM)

Discusses Black student alienation on white campuses, the inadequacies and racial bias of social science courses, and the debilitating effect of token integration on the Black community as a whole. (KG)

Describes a study of the achievement of four hundred and fifty first graders in the Gulfport, Mississippi Separate School District in connection with a federally financed project to study the effect of improved Educational conditions. (JM)

In a desegregating school district in Springfield, Massachusetts, Black students who walked to a predominantly Black elementary school that they had attended for at least two years (and to which Whites were being bused) had higher achievement scores than Black students who were being bused to a predominantly White school. (MJL)

Urban education is an education for the interdependent living for all sorts and conditions of people, and school desegregation is a manifestation of the urban education movement. The evidence informs us that members of all racial populations tend to make a more appropriate assessment of their talents after experiencing desegregation. (Author/CM)

As a result of the Brown v Board of Education court decision, thousands of educational positions which would have gone to Blacks in the South have been lost, although gains in school positions for Blacks have occurred in other parts of the country. (RLV)

Finishing the business of school desegregation requires extending efforts beyond the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to design strategies that are not dependent on the courts nor on the good will of white America. Ways to promote more equitable schools are suggested. (SLD)

Discusses the Multicultural Education Plan of the Duluth, Minnesota, school system and its response to a citation for noncompliance for excessive minority enrollments. Claims that in multicultural setting counselor plays a key role and must know about cultural background of students and assess the cultural climate of the school. (ABL)

Adopting a symbolic interactionist approach, this study explores the comments and assumptions of two opposing blocs of policymakers during the early stages of setting new desegregation policy in a midwestern U.S. metropolitan area. The groups agreed on intent, educational effects, and implementation means. One group conceptualized policy in terms…

Discusses the issue of choice in education in the context of San Francisco's 15 alternative public elementary schools. These schools draw more committed students, parents, and teachers, and they create a sense of community often lacking in the public schools, yet they are less socioeconomically integrated. Calls for more exploration of the…