The main purpose of this study is to present documented facts concerning the operation of school desegregation in communities which are engaged in the process. The purpose of the Commission on Civil Rights is to identify problems which recur in school districts undergoing desegregation, and to describe how they have been met. Specifically, the…

The intent of this research was to explore the dynamics of race relation orientations among blacks using recent panel data from a sample of 52 black homemakers residing in 2 selected East Texas villages. Specifically described is the extent of changes noted during the 1-year study period extending from the spring of 1970 to the spring of 1971 in…

Noting that each school tends to define integration in its own terms, this study attempts to contribute to a typology of school integration by describing the definition of integration at one particular school, and then attempting to construct a balanced definition of integration, based on observation and interpreted within a broader conceptual…

In order to determine the effect of school desegregation on White enrollment, the policy impact from two long-term demographic trends among middle class Whites--suburbanization and the declining birth rate--must be isolated. (Author/MC)

Courts and policy makers must begin to consider the intimate relationship between school and housing policies both in the building and in the dismantling of ghettos. (Author)

If past experience is taken as a guide, desegregation in the big cities will not come easily, yet interdistrict desegregation of public education is the key to allowing minority youth to participate in the mainstream of the economy in addition to relieving the tension between the races. (Author/AM)

The evidence presented in this study of 113 school districts in the United States from 1964 or earlier to 1975-76 suggests that school desegregation has a disintegrative effect during implementation and an integrative effect in post-implementation years. (Author/AM)

The effects of Teams-Games-Tournament (TG T), an instructional game employing biracial learning teams, on cross-racial friendships in integrated classes was examined in four experiments involving 558 students in grades 7-12. Sociometric measures and chi-square analyses indicated that TGT was an effective means of increasing cross-racial friendship…

The Corpus Christi Independent School District is undergoing the third phase of its integration order. Officials, who once talked of appealing the remedies as soon as the final phase was ordered, will not do so. The death of the unpopular computer grid plan defused the major complaints. (Author/AM)

The Flint public school system, Michigan's second largest, has adopted an aggressive magnet school plan but the project has fallen short of ending segregation in the city's classrooms. (Author/AM)

Persons involved in developing a viable desegregation plan will have to take into account the diversity within the Latino community and will have to be aware of the diverse political goals and residential patterns of each Spanish speaking community. (Author/AM)

There is much resistance to desegregation. People do not believe it is beneficial for the following reasons: (1) it is not clear how the movement of students will improve schools; (2) effective, well-defined desegregation plans are lacking; (3) the research evidence of benefits is thin; and (4) critical problems such as instructional management…

Personal views of the school desegregation plan in St. Louis are offered, based on experience working on the plan with the NAACP. The plan is failing for the following reasons: (1) the burden to desegregate is on the victims; (2) lack of white students in the city; and (3) inadequate transfer of teachers. (VM)

Parents from Buffalo, New York, talk about desegregation, magnet schools and parent choice over the past ten years. (GC)

The history of school desegregation falls into four main stages: litigation (1930-54); demonstration (1955-64); legislation (1965-68); and implementation (1969 to the present). Desegregation has successfully enhanced education, benefited whites as well as blacks, and created a growing acceptance of blacks as leaders. (KH)