The Ways to Improve Education in Desegregated Schools (WIEDS) project's purpose are to develop an information base of successful desegregation/integration strategies and to construct a set of models and guidelines for use by schools in planning staff development activities. Empirical research literature yields data showing that teacher behavior…

This report describes inservice training programs in six eastern United States school districts. The districts range in student population from 4,400 to 65,000 and initially desegregated between 1970 and 1978. A team of investigators visited each of the districts and interviewed approximately 40 administrators, inservice trainers, and training…

RECOMMENDATIONS TO ALLEVIATE RACIAL IMBALANCE IN THE SCHOOLS WERE PRESENTED. THESE INCLUDED--USING OPEN ENROLLMENT, IN WHICH PARENTS CAN TRANSPORT THEIR CHILDREN TO ANY SCHOOL WHERE THERE ARE VACANCIES, TRANSPORTING STUDENTS TO AND FROM SCHOOL SITES AT PUBLIC EXPENSE TO RELIEVE OVERCROWDING, REDISTRICTING SCHOOL AREA BOUNDARIES TO CORRECT RACIAL…

This paper explores the creation, organizational stages, intervention activities, and outcomes of the School Improvement Resource Team (SIRT) in the Buffalo Public Schools (New York) from 1977 to 1980. Intended primarily to defuse tensions during implementation of court ordered desegregation, the SIRT effort serves as an apparently successful…

Nearly 500 teachers in the Sequoia Union High School District (Redwood City, California) were surveyed in order to explore: (1) strategies they used to bring about integration in secondary schools; (2) techniques that discourage resegregation in desegregated high schools; (3) ways that the district's teachers draw out the best in students new to a…

A purposive sample of 20 school districts in 10 states was analyzed to determine patterns of change in segregation indices during 1968-1976 for blacks and Hispanics and to determine the extent to which segregation was attributable to mobility. No overall pattern could accurately describe school desegregation at the district level for Hispanics.…

Prior to desegregation in 1970 and 1971, there had been minimal effort directed toward the reduction of racial isolation in the schools of Williamsburg County, South Carolina. Black students first enrolled in all white schools in 1965 after the school system began operating on a freedom of choice basis. In 1970 the Department of Health, Education…

This book concentrates on the experiences, personal insights, and big events that made up the battle to desegregate the public schools in Boston, Massachusetts. It also gives the historical background of the struggle. In 1965, Massachusetts passed the first state law against de facto segregation, the Racial Imbalance Act. It was not enforced. On…

This new plan is the result of an examination of previous efforts by the State of Maryland to achieve a more representative racial balance in Maryland's public institutions of higher education. It is intended to: (1) eliminate vestiges of former racial dualism in Maryland's public higher education institutions; (2) increase minority and other-race…

The first requirement for educating a child in a desegregated school is for the instructional and administrative personnel of the school to become aware of the issues and problems incident to school desegregation and to seek alternatives which might be employed to reduce tensions and insecurity among children. Consequently, an inservice program…

This study is part of a manpower research project to analyze Negro employment patterns in the South and to suggest ways to improve them. Government is a major employer, especially during economic depressions when market forces have caused high unemployment in the private sector. Governments may be particularly important sources of jobs for Negroes…

The anthology by Jesse Perry, "Reading Ladders for Human Relations," constructed of a blend of best literary works, was compiled based on the conviction that reading selected books would increase the social sensitivity of young people and play a unique role in fostering better human relationships. Its main purposes are expressed in the section…

This report reviews the first year of integration, under the implementation of the Six-District Plan, of the elementary schools in Springfield, Massachusetts. Through this plan the school department changed the racial composition in five previously imbalanced elementary schools and integrated the elementary school system. Redistricting, the…

In Cleveland, the reassignment of faculty and staff for the initial stages of school integration went smoothly. The desegregation of students however, is far more complicated and major plans are probably a year away. (Author/AM)

In this article, Judge Battisti of Cleveland, Ohio, chides the school board for creating the erroneous impression that the court has committed itself to a particular desegregation plan. (Author/AM)