This study originated in 1968, when desegregation was being carried out mainly on a one-way basis, by busing minority pupils to predominantly white schools. Two of the districts studied, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Providence, Rhode Island, were then groping their way toward racial balance, primarily because of local pressures, and both had…

This report summarizes the findings of the 1969-70 evaluation of Project Follow Through in Wichita, Kansas. In the first year of the program, 186 Head Start graduates were bused from low income residential areas to four elementary schools located on the periphery of the city. The receiving schools varied in socioeconomic status of pupils from…

The Racine Unified School District in Wisconsin has worked to enhance the probability of positive outcomes for all students involved in the desegregation process through planning, community involvement, and school board responsibility. (Author/AM)

Asserts that the rights and liberties of minority children to equal protection under the law and equal access to public facilities and resources are not to be negotiated on the basis of some bit of data. These prerogatives for minority children, and in the final analysis for all of us, exist as a result of the political and moral visions we hold…

Coleman has suggested metropolitan-area busing as an integration method since previous studies have shown that local governments are highly resistant to structural changes. (Author/JM)

Despite contrary nationwide sentiment, Louisville has proved that metropolitan-area-wide busing can work. (Author)

In the 1938 Gaines decision, the United States Supreme Court required the State of Missouri to provide for the higher education of black citizens within its borders rather than by the previous out-of-state tuition plan. This report examines the lives of litigants and the effect of their actions in personal and social terms. (PS)

A project of the Poona (India) District Leprosy Committee offers training in the industrial sector to leprosy patients, orthopedically handicapped individuals, and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals, under a common roof. The project aims to combat the leprosy stigma and to aid rehabilitation by making the trainees economically…

Concurrent implementation of race desegregation and bilingual education can be at odds with one another, but ways to circumvent the contradiction are outlined. Desegregation processes can and must ensure that both the educational equity rights and educational needs of language minority children are considered. (LHW)

To address integration and community we must understand the experiences of those to be integrated. This article advocates the use of neighborhoods as places to: (1) identify and solve common problems and (2) promote neighborhood identity around institutions and natural resources. It also outlines three ways the law can promote integrated…

This article outlines strategies of maintaining integration emphasizing: (1) housing offices and counseling; (2) community action to alter real estate policies; (3) school action including public relations and human relations thinking; (4) community organization of commercial and religious institutions; (5) financial incentives for pro-integrative…

Describes a successful plan to reduce the racial isolation of Massachusetts school in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood. Ascribes the school's successful magnet minority enrollment largely to parental involvement. Offers examples of academic improvement among children attending the school. (RDN)

Nigeria's multilingual, multicultural society and the political and linguistic problems arising from it are outlined, and the place of the translator in the process of social integration is discussed. Official institutional recognition of translator contributions is recommended, and these professionals are encouraged to make themselves known…

The result, for those seeking a metropolitanwide solution to school desegregation, is that neither Milliken nor the implementation of Gautreaux offers very much hope for the near future. (Author)

Describes and evaluates an institute which grew out of an attempt to find solutions to some of the problems resulting from the unitary school" concept which was inaugurated in South Carolina to implement court orders to desegregate public schools. (Author/JM)