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Foote, Edward T. – 1981
This educational plan for voluntary, cooperative school desegregation was designed to provide the St. Louis, Missouri Public School System with strategies for coping with desegregation effects, such as declining enrollments, teacher layoffs, and school closings. The primary components of the plan include: (1) permissive, interdistrict transfers on…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Rossell, Christine; And Others – 1981
This literature review considers the impact of desegregation on community response, racial relations, academic achievement and resegregation. Chapter one examines the effectiveness of desegregation plans in reducing racial isolation and white flight, and in promoting a positive community response. Desegregation school practices and effects on…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Thomas, Gail E.; Brown, Frank – 1981
What does educational research tell us about the effects of school desegregation? A review of past and present research studies provides no conclusive evidence about the effects of school desegregation, primarily because of the variance in type of methodology, time period of desegregation implementation, and type of desegregation plans evaluated.…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Desegregation Effects, Educational Environment, Educational Opportunities
Surgeon, George; And Others – 1976
Results of a 1975 survey on racial attitudes of blacks and whites in Chicago are tabulated and analyzed in the four reports compiled in this book. In "Structure and Context of White Racial Attitudes," George Surgeon examines the racial beliefs of whites in terms of such factors as age, education, neighborhood, and sex of survey…
Descriptors: Blacks, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Economically Disadvantaged
Linney, Jean Ann; Seidman, Edward – 1978
The focus of this report is on the utility of desegregation as a method for achieving racial equality. Background information is provided through a discussion of the Brown Decision, a review of related literature and the meaning of racial equality. Comparisons of black and white achievement scores are used to address the question of equality.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Conference Reports, Desegregation Effects
Patton, Richard H.; Laue, James H. – 1979
This manual was designed for community and school groups to aid them in clarifying their goals and selecting strategies for resolving issues related to school desegregation. After a brief review of the law, Part 1 reviews the major issues involved in the school desegregation process: quality education, white flight, middle-class minority flight,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Ollie, Bert W., Jr.; Leonard, James R. – 1979
Despite the hopes of social scientists and civil rights activists that school desegregation would close the educational gap between blacks and whites, a full generation of effort has not resulted in parity between the achievement levels of black and white students. School desegregation alone is not the answer to ending achievement differences.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Educational Environment
BOWER, ROBERT T.; AND OTHERS – 1956
THE STUDY FOCUSED ON THE BROAD PROBLEM OF ANALYZING THE PROCESSES OF ADJUSTMENT OF A SAMPLE OF STUDENTS TO THE NEW INTERRACIAL SITUATION AS IT DEVELOPED IN USUAL SCHOOL ROUTINES AND ACTIVITIES. THE SURVEY INCLUDED JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THE PROCEDURE USED WAS A SERIES OF QUESTIONS ON THE INFORMANT'S OWN…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Educational Environment, High Schools, Individual Differences
Bosma, Boyd – 1980
This paper provides an overview of events and issues in school desegregation that have significant impact on teachers and teacher associations. The displacement of black teachers as a result of desegregation prior to 1972 is assessed. Various court decisions in 1972-73 and the passage of the Emergency School Aid Act are cited as marking a turning…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Classroom Desegregation, Community Relations, Contracts
WOLMAN, T.G. – 1964
REPORTED ARE SOME OF THE ACADEMIC EFFECTS OF THE OPTIONAL TRANSFER PLAN IN NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, WHERE STUDENTS FROM A NEGRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WERE BUSED TO OTHER SCHOOLS. METROPOLITAN ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES OF TRANSFER STUDENTS IN GRADES ONE THROUGH FIVE SHOWED THAT THE MEAN GRADE EQUIVALENTS WERE CONSISTENT WITH GROWTH SCORES FOR NONTRANSFER…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Advantaged, Black Students
Peniston, E. – 1974
The primary purpose of this study was to determine if there are differences in level of student aspirations between students in segregated and those in integrated schools. There are other highly related and interacting variables that may influence levels of aspirations; namely, student performance, significant others, and significant others'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Black Students, Desegregation Effects
National Advisory Council on Equality of Educational Opportunity. – 1975
The Emergency School Aid Act was enacted to provide financial assistance for relieving particular problems associated with public school desegregation and minority group isolation. The act mandated the establishment of a 15-member National Advisory Council on Equality of Educational Opportunity (NACEEO) with at least half of the members…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Desegregation Effects, Educational Legislation, Educational Opportunities
Eash, Maurice J.; Rasher, Sue Pinzur – 1976
This study reports the evaluation of the effects of a mandated busing program which integrated the student body in a K-8 suburban school district. A two phase, three year study gathered evaluation data on achievement, classroom instruction, student and staff attitudes, perceived classroom environments, and student behavior incidents. Evaluation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Classroom Environment, Decision Making
McCloud, Paul I. – 1974
Progress toward the integration of the Tulsa Public Schools has not been without some inconvenience and much patient work, but progress has been made as demonstrated by the jump from one all-black and three all-white high schools in 1954 to ten integrated high schools in 1974. Pupil integration efforts prior to 1970 were limited to boundary…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Gerard, Harold B.; Miller, Norman – 1975
This study has 13 chapters. The first chapter introduces the study, with a background of reference to data from previous research on school desegregation studies. Chapter 2 discusses the events leading up to and ensuing from the desegregation decision of the Riverside California School District Board of Education. Chapter 3 gives an overall…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Effects, Educational Experience, Family Characteristics
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