This study evaluates the Emergency School Assistance Act Television Program (ESAA-TV), which provides grants and/or federal contracts to school districts for the production, duplication, promotion, and distribution of racially integrated children's programming. A review of the origins and intents of the legislation is followed by a description of…

This report on 1978-1979 desegregation activity in Seattle, Washington, charts demographic changes in school district enrollment and reductions in racial imbalance. Data are also presented on the number of students reassigned to residence based schools, retention rates for reassigned students by grade and race, and number of students participating…

This collection of conference papers examines various policy issues significant to the education of California's ethnic minority students. The document supports the view that educational improvements should not be based upon compensatory programs that assume linguistic and cultural deficiencies among students, but rather should look toward…

Several problems regarding the desegregation process can be identified. First, the population shift of urban whites to surrounding suburbs has hindered urban school desegregation and metropolitan desegregation plans have proved politically unsuccessful. Second, the number of black administrators lags far behind the number of black students. In…

ABOUT 45 RECOMMENDATIONS IN SIX GENERAL AREAS OF CONCERN RESULTED FROM A REPORT BY THE COMMISSION ON INTEGRATION. THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE RECOMMENDATIONS FOCUSED ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY ON ELEMENTARY AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. THE CHILDREN CONSIDERED IN THE INTEGRATION STUDY WERE NEGROES AND PUERTO RICANS, ALTHOUGH NO DISTINCTION IS MADE IN THE…

THE VERBATIM FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND DECISION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION WITH ITS FINAL ORDER IN THE CHESTER SCHOOL DISTRICT CASE, WERE REPORTED. THE AREAS STUDIED WERE--SCHOOL BOUNDARIES, POPULATION FACTORS, CLASS SIZE, ADMINISTRATION, FACULTY RECRUITMENT, TEXTBOOK USE, ORIGIN OF THE SEGREGATED SCHOOL SUSTEM,…

ALTHOUGH DISCRIMINATION AND EXCLUSION ARE DOOMED ACCORDING TO TO THE LAW, THERE APPEARS TO BE CONSIDERABLE DISTINCTION IN MEN'S MINDS BETWEEN ABSENCE OF DISCRIMINATION ON THE ONE HAND AND AFFIRMATIVE MEASURES TO IMPLEMENT INTEGRATION ON THE OTHER. PHILADELPHIA HAS A GREAT DEAL OF DE FACTO SEGREGATION. AS THE POPULATION GROWS, NEGROES AND WHITES…

THE THREE SUBJECTS DISCUSSED AT THE CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC SCHOOL SEGREGATION-DESEGREGATION WERE THE EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF SCHOOL SEGREGATION AND DESEGREGATION, FACTORS TO BE CONSIDERED IN PLANNING DESEGREGATION, AND PREPARATION FOR DESEGREGATION. THE SYNOPSIS SUMMARIZES THE DIVERGENT VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THE PANELS AND BY SPEAKERS AT THE CONFERENCE…

BASED ON A STUDY OF RACIAL ISOLATION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, THIS PAMPHLET NOTES SOME TECHNIQUES FOR SCHOOL DESEGREGATION. ELEMENTS COMMON TO SUCCESSFUL DESEGREGATION INCLUDE THE LEADERSHIP OF SCHOOL OFFICIALS, COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, QUALITY EDUCATION, MINIMIZING OF RACIAL FRICTION, CLASSROOM DESEGREGATION, AND ENLARGED ATTENDANCE AREAS. MOST…

Efforts to desegregate the public schools in Berkeley, California began in 1957 when a committee was appointed to study the problems of desegregation. In 1963, the board voted to desegregate the junior high schools and to study methods for desegregating the elementary schools. The 1968 elementary desegregation plan was complex. To desegregate the…

The Racine Unified School District, in Racine, Wisconsin in 1973 voluntarily adopted a resolution mandating that, in effect, no school in the district could have a minority enrollment greater than 30.7%. Kindergarten classes were not included in the desegregation plan. When the desegregation plan was adopted, some segments of the minority…

This is a report on school desegregation in Tempe, Arizona. The desegregation plan focused on the Guadalupe community, specifically, the Veda B. Frank Elementary School. In 1972-73 this school had a minority student enrollment of 92%, of which 90% were Mexican Americans. The reassignment of students required by the plan affected Mexican American…

In this paper, the Kentucky Commisssion on Human Rights outlines ways in which housing-related institutions and agencies can revise their policies and procedures to reverse the trend towards housing segregation. Recommendations are made to the city and county with regard to how Section 8 housing assistance programs can be used to promote…

This study reports on an ethnographic investigation of a desegregated high school in Memphis, Tennessee. Processes of interracial education that occur in a desegregated school are examined in a discussion of some principles of educational stratification. The interaction of stratification and schooling in the United States is explained. The…

This paper discusses some of the ways in which social science research can be useful to the courts in school desegregation litigation. A discussion of specific legal cases is used to illustrate areas where the courts have needed social science research. Several areas that can be analyzed by social scientists include: (1) housing segregation, (2)…