The Chancellor of the New York City Board of Education discusses, in his testimony before a May 1974 public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights why the goal of integration in New York City, as in other inner city areas throughout the country, remained so elusive, noting that 66 percent of public school children in New York City…

Discusses a study of the initial year of a district reorganized in both its grade level structure and in the racial and socio-economic balance of its school buildings to accomplish desegregation, which had the stated aim of assessing the equality of educational opportunity offered. (Author/JM)

This is the text of a United States Court of Appeals decision setting aside the order of a lower court to desegregate a New York City high school. The Court found that the segregation of the school was de facto, not de jure segregation, and that Federal judges are not authorized to impose a school desegregation plan where there has been no…

This paper deals with the events that led to a need for problem-solving measures in the Richmond, Virginia, Public Schools, and describes the planning strategies that have evolved since 1973. Events of the late 1960s and early 70s that had a major impact on the school system included three changes of superintendents (that brought three…

This book arose from a 1976 conference on school desegregation and the mass media. In it participants address critical legal and political issues and explore aspects of the coverage of desegregation by the news media. Five desegregation specialists describe and analyze court decisions, congressional actions, studies, plans and changes which have…

In the first paper presented here eight problems are addressed: (1) racial inventory of Catholic school students; (2) inventory of integration policies and programs; (3) minority faculty in Catholic schools; (4) desegregation strategy; (5) Catholic schools and public school desegregation; (6) Catholic schools and Hispanic Americans; (7) successful…

The goal of the Ways to Improve Education in Desegregated Schools (WIEDS) project is to establish a regional information base for the southwestern United States (Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas) concerning successful desegregation strategies and remaining areas of need in desegregated schools. Such information…

IN RESPONSE TO THE SUPREME COURT'S CALL FOR ACTION IN REGARD TO INTEGRATION, CERTAIN QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED. THESE INCLUDED--(1) THE END OF LEGAL SEGREGATION IN THE SCHOOLS WAS NOT A SHARP BREAK WITH THE PAST, SINCE IT WAS AN OUTGROWTH OF THE TREND IN RACE RELATIONS DATING FROM THE END OF WORLD WAR II. (2) RACE RELATIONS WERE NOT UNIFORM…

ONE YEAR AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA SHOW ONLY 151,409 NEGROES IN DESEGREGATED CLASSES IN THE 11 STATES IN THE DEEP SOUTH--5.2 PERCENT OF THE NEGRO SCHOOL CENSUS. THESE FIGURES ARE ABOUT 60,000 LESS THAN THOSE REPORTED BY THE OFFICE OF EDUCATION. DESPITE STATEMENTS BY STATE, LOCAL, AND SOME FEDERAL…

THE CURRICULUM SHOULD ATTEMPT TO RAISE ALL CHILDREN TO A LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE AND OPPORTUNITY THAT WILL ENABLE THEM TO FUNCTION WITH EQUAL CHANCE OF SUCCESS. THIS PROCESS SHOULD BEGIN AMONG CULTURALLY DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN AT THE AGE OF FOUR. BEGINNING IN THE FIRST GRADE, THE CURRICULUM SHOULD GIVE ALL CHILDREN AN UNDERSTANDING OF THEIR CIVIL…

THE SCHOOL IS A BASIC INSTRUMENT IN SECURING THE AMERICAN GOALS OF EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR PERSONAL FULFILLMENT. EVERY EFFORT MUST BE MADE TO ACHIEVE RACIALLY INTEGRATED SCHOOLS, FOR PRESENCE OF CHILDREN FROM VARIED RACIAL, CULTURAL, AND SOCIOECONOMIC BACKGROUNDS IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN THE PREPARATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE FOR PARTICIPATION IN MODERN…

The Chicago Board of Education has been attempting to formulate a school desegregation plan to satisfy the U.S. Department of Education (HEW) guidelines for a decade. Public hearings and community participation are to be an integral part of the planning process. To determine the community's attitudes toward school desegregation, over one thousand…

This paper examines the findings of the Multi-Ethnic School Environments Project, which examined the special training needs of teachers in newly desegregated classrooms. Ethnographic research investigated how teachers' instructional and management strategies and features of the school context that impact the classroom can promote both learning and…

The 1965 Federal government publication reviews the status of school desegregation as of that year. It is said that "profound changes" were taking place in the desegregation process from 1963 to 1965. Information is presented about the situation in primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, as well as the extent of…

De facto segregation in schools deprives children of certain minority groups of true equality of opportunity. Those people who propose doing nothing about integration are simply making excuses for avoiding change. The Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association has set up five principles which may be used as guidelines in…