While existing research suggests that schools have only indirect effects on students' racial and political attitudes, the social and demographic characteristics of desegregated classrooms may produce certain normative and behavioral outcomes which encourage children to accept human diversity encountered in concrete situations. This pattern of…

A CRISIS INVOLVING CONFLICT BETWEEN LOCAL, STATE, AND FEDERAL POWERS ON THE DECISION OF DESEGREGATION RESULTED IN CLOSURE OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, HARASSMENT OF CITIZENS, UNCHECKED VIOLENCE, UNJUST TREATMENT OF CITIZENS, AND GENERAL DISORDER OF THE COMMUNITY. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THIS BOARD TO AVOID SITUATIONS AS ENCOUNTERED IN NEW ORLEANS INCLUDE-- A…

LITERATURE ON SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION OF NEGROES AND WHITES IN THE UNITED STATES IS PRESENTED. THE LITERATURE SURVEYED IS CONFINED TO ARTICLES WHICH APPEARED IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS IN THE PERIOD JANUARY 1, 1951, TO JULY 1, 1956. SEGREGATION AND INTEGRATION IN VARIOUS INSTITUTIONAL AREAS INCLUDE INTERRACIAL ACTIVITIES IN SOUTHERN CHURCHES, IN…

A discussion of the fiscal impact of court-ordered desegregation on the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) public schools delineates the conditions and costs for the program from 1976 to 1979. The court order affected 75 percent of the district's students. In response the school district established a number of specialty schools and provided for the busing of…

A criterion-based assessment procedure was used to evaluate the success of court-ordered desegregation and educational programs in Detroit, Michigan. A monitoring commission was appointed to effect this assessment. This report begins by describing the commission and assessment procedures. The next portion of the report is devoted to materials…

Racial perceptions and attitudes as well as career orientations of 158 black and 187 white females from 27 U.S. Army installations were measured by questionnaire. Demographic characteristics between female groups, and with a larger sample of males, are compared. Specific areas of satisfaction with military life and general career orientation are…

The purpose of this study was to design an instrument to measure interpersonal racial attitudes among primary children in segregated and nonsegregated school settings. Subjects were 129 first and second graders enrolled in a lower-middle class all white school, an all Negro slum school, and an integrated lower-middle class school. All received…

Segregated housing and school attendance boundaries contributed to significant racial segregation in Waterloo, Iowa's public schools. In 1967, 81% of white students attended schools that were at least 90% white, and 30% of the black students attended schools at least 90% minority. Although 11 of the 33 Waterloo schools had black students, 66% of…

The third in a series aimed at monitoring changes or stability in attitudes toward race relations of a panel of black, female adults, this report focused on rural rather than metropolitan blacks. Two all-black villages in East Texas were selected for the study area. The original sample numbered 52 females, and only black female interviewers were…

This study was conducted to learn whether black educators who had been principals of all-black schools experienced job displacement during the period when schools were being desegregated. Reactive and nonreactive data-collecting techniques were used to gather information on 343 black administrators. The findings indicate that during the…

This study is an attempt to discover what happens to students' attitudes as a result of experience in desegregated schools. In particular, the students studied were involved in a special busing program called Operation Hospitality, which was carried out by the Chicago Catholic School Board. Through this program, black grade school students from…

Cheshire, Connecticut, is currently conducting a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of Project Concern, in which children from the urban ghettos of New Haven are transported daily by bus to area suburban towns. The subjects in this study are 25 minority group children who are presently enrolled in the Cheshire schools for the second year. The…

Two major perspectives on desegregated school patterns can be seen in the papers in this volume. Most of the papers describe some aspect of intergroup dynamics including forms of competition and conflict. The second theme represented is that of the reflection of macrolevel structural features in the school setting. (Author/EB)

That so much of the task of desegregation still lies ahead, coupled with the realization that desegregation has not fulfilled expectations, suggests it is time for a reconsideration of the assumptions influencing the present approaches. (Author/AM)

The King School in Dorchester, Massachusetts has come from being an educational basket case to succeeding in the remarkable feat of attracting and holding a city-wide population of students. (Author/AM)