An account of school integration and its impact on educational innovation in Alabama, by the Assistant Dean, School of Education, Auburn University. (JM)

A survey of 1,600 adult Negroes in northern metropolitan areas finds those who attended integrated rather than segregated schools are more likely to have had longer school attendance and score higher on a verbal test. Several reasons are offered as accounting for this effect of integration. (Author/DB)

The experience of Detroit with community control is less well known but is considered important. Here the central issue was formed and resolved with unusual clarity, the issue being whether community control is compatible with racial integration; the unequivocal answer in Detroit was "No." (DM)

The focus of integrated colleges on black students with higher SAT scores is effecting a redistribution of behavior styles and personality characteristics that contributes critically to campus environments, and deprives Negro colleges of those students who could make a very positive contribution. (Author/JB)

Examines research demonstrating that forced busing does not guarantee equal education or raise minority achievement. Advocates a first choice, free transportation system to fulfill the intent of Brown v. Board of Education. (SK)

Describes Kelly versus Board of Education in Nashville, Tennessee, a case that challenged the closing of predominantly Black schools in Black neighborhoods for the purpose of busing Black students to underenrolled, predominantly White schools in White neighborhoods. Suggests that racial balance is not necessary to improve Black children's academic…

Cites 52 books, doctoral dissertations, journal articles, and ERIC documents on the school desegregation process in Los Angeles, California. Focuses on public attitudes, the court role, and effects of desegregation on Blacks and Mexican Americans. (MJL)

Among the issues discussed in this round table discussion are the following: bussing, the conflicts between labor and bussing, and the bussing crisis in Boston. (AM)

Asserts that "while national attention tends to be focused on the explosive examples of court-order school desegregation, hundreds of schools are quietly and successfully integrated. In addition, recent research in the State of Illinois points out that large numbers of public schools are integrated without special plans." (Author/JM)

This article critically reviews the social-psychological literature on race attitudes, which has assumed that the prejudicial status of any expression is determined by the underlying psychological attitude that motivated it. Variation and inconsistency in individuals' attitudinal expressions and disagreement over how to measure prejudice have…

The contact hypothesis proposes that interaction between members of different groups reduces intergroup prejudice if--and only if--certain optimal conditions are present. For over 50 years, research using this framework has explored the boundary conditions for ideal contact and has guided interventions to promote desegregation. Although supporting…

Two related papers are presented. "Towards Quality in Bilingual Education: Some Things We Must Do," addresses nine specific areas that have been the focus of recent discussion and suggests steps for action. Principles that are basic to establishing criteria for quality bilingual education are suggested. The nine areas are: education…

This study examines the effects of racial composition of a classroom on students' cross-race and same-race friendships. Two "theories" of interracial sociability are discussed. The first argues that interracial friendliness is affected primarily by the number of opportunities students have for cross-race interaction relative to same-race…

The Austin Independent School District developed a proposal for Chapter 2-Discretionary funds to be used to offer enrichment and supplemental instruction at 12 schools experiencing significant losses of students resulting in low enrollment, racial balances with lower than expected Anglo percentages, and under-utilized building space. Eight schools…