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Alkin, Marvin; And Others – 1983
This report presents the 1982-83 results of an ongoing evaluation of two voluntary integration programs, Permits With Transportation (PWT) and Continued Voluntary Permits (CVP), which operate within the Los Angeles Unified School District. Information on implementation methods is presented for the use of district policymakers and for gauging…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Busing, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans
Metz, Mary Haywood – 1978
In an ethnographic study of three recently desegregated junior high schools, the pressures placed upon teachers by students in different academic tracks were analyzed. Students in each track were grouped homogeneously in terms of race, social class and academic performance. The methodology of this study consisted of utilizing students' responses…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Black Students, Case Studies, Desegregation Effects
Trent, William T.; McPartland, James M. – 1981
This report examines the resegregation of black and white students which may occur in desegregated schools due to differential enrollment and participation in academic programs and extracurricular activities. The report analyzes data collected by the National Longitudinal Survey (NLS) of 1318 high school graduating classes of 1972 throughout the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Classroom Desegregation, Comparative Analysis, Desegregation Effects
Crain, Robert L.; Hawley, Willis D. – 1981
This paper agrees that there are inadequacies in school desegregation research and suggests strategies for improving its quality and availability as well as improving current educational policies. It is suggested that the interaction of power and resources determines the post-desegregation changes in school policies. The effects of desegregation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Discipline
Stephens, O. Z. – 1976
This report argues that recent court decisions and the subsequent implementation of desegregation plans have contributed to rapidly increasing resegregation of the public school population. Official enrollment data for the Memphis City School System from 1963 to 1976 is used to: (1) examine enrollments in light of induced desegregation from its…
Descriptors: Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
BROWN, AARON – 1963
THE LEGACY OF DISCRIMINATORY EDUCATION AND ITS CONTINUING PRACTICE HAS LEFT LARGE SECTIONS OF THE MINORITY POPULATION "SHORT-CHANGED." THE BEST METHOD OF MAKING UP FOR THESE DEFICIENCIES, PAST AND PRESENT, IS COMPENSATORY EDUCATION. HOWEVER THIS TYPE OF EDUCATION HAS NOT BEEN WELL-IMPLEMENTED IN ANY LARGE CITY, INCLUDING NEW YORK CITY,…
Descriptors: Blacks, Board of Education Policy, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Kinney, James – 1978
The dilemma of accountability and "back to basics" that has brought harsh criticism on the two-year college teacher stems from conflict between two different philosophies of education. A conservative view, based on behavioral psychology, stresses the vocational aspects of education where people are trained in skills so that they can be…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Desegregation Effects, Educational Objectives
McCormack, Wayne, Ed. – 1978
An analysis is presented of the "Bakke" decision and the several opinions of the Supreme Court Justices. The principal issue presented by the case is whether a higher education institution using a selective admission program may adjust that program by giving explicit preference to qualified members of identified racial or ethnic groups…
Descriptors: Admission (School), Affirmative Action, Civil Rights, College Admission
District Court, Houston, TX. Southern District of Texas. – 1975
On June 1, 1970 The United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division, entered its Memorandum and Order requiring the Houston Independent School District to operate its schools beginning with the 1970-71 school year under an equi-distant zoning plan. The pairings and rezoning as finally ordered were fully…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Freedom House Inst. on Schools and Education, Roxbury, MA. – 1975
The initial black community response to the desegregation plan submitted by the School Department is contained in this document. The principal purpose is to make clear to the court that in evaluating this plan, or any other, improvements in the quality of schooling is sought. Efforts to rid the Boston schools of discriminatory pupil placement are…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Education, Black Influences, Black Leadership
Shelton, Raymond O. – 1976
The Hillsborough County School District is recognized as the nation's most successfully desegregated metropolitan school district in the United States. Basic statistics show that the pupil population has grown to 115,000; pupil and faculty composition is approximately 80% white and 20% black; 56,000 pupils are transported daily, 25,000 for…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Hawley, Willis D. – 1976
The focus of this inquiry is on the commitment students have to academic achievement. The model on which this analysis is based assumes that student effort in school is the product of several factors relating to parental influences, classroom structure, teacher behavior and peer norms and characteristics. In assessing the possibility of a linkage…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Research, Desegregation Effects
Gilliard, June V., Comp.; Webb, Harold, Comp. – 1969
There is an overwhelming need for individual schools and school systems to take immediate steps toward building good intergroup relations both prior to and during the initial period of school integration. Inasmuch as positive action by school boards and superintendents at all levels is essential and constitutes the first step in school…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Boards of Education
Frankel, Edward – 1968
This report is a follow-up study of the students who participated in a high school grade reorganization plan in the city of New York as a step toward establishment of a four-year comprehensive high school. The evaluation attempts assessment of any long-range effects of this program on disadvantaged high school students in four representative high…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Counselor Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Disadvantaged Youth
Powell, Blanche Ruth – 1970
This study documents the racial attitudes and desires of middle class Negroes in greater New York City area, and explores integration versus separatism preference in the areas of schools, employment, housing, and social relationships. Middle socioeconomic status adults aged 30-55 and comprising samples of 100 each in the Bronx and Harlem were…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Education, Black Employment, Black Housing
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