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Download full textCrain, Robert L.; Mahard, Rita E. – 1982
A meta analysis of 93 research reports on school desegregation and black achievement was conducted to determine (1) why the study results differed as to apparent desegregation effects; and (2) whether some desegregation plans produced greater achievement gains than others. An analysis indicated that inconsistencies in research findings were mainly…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Black Students, Control Groups, Curriculum Development
Wilson, William J.; O'Sullivan, Katherine – 1976
This paper examines the role of urban schools in an advanced industrial society such as the United States, and the extent to which structural changes in the economy intervene with schooling to determine the social positon of urban workers. It suggests that in order to realistically assess the basic assumptions and rationale for urban school…
Descriptors: Black Education, Black Employment, Black Students, Black Youth
Glenn, Beverly Caffee; McLean, Taylor – 1981
This study sought to identify schools that efficiently teach economically disadvantaged black children and describe these schools as models for quality urban education in the United States. An effective school was defined as one in which at least 40 percent of the student population was black; gains were demonstrated in student achievement; and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Characteristics, Black Students, Desegregation Effects
Raivetz, Mark J.; And Others – 1982
The School District of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was ordered by the Commonwealth Court to begin a voluntary desegregation plan in February, 1979. To support the desegregation process, the school district applied for and received grants from the Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) to develop programs around eight basic models: pairing, enrichment,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Peterman, William A. – 1982
Recent increases in black migration to the suburbs and the continuing existence of discrimination in housing have emphasized the issues of integration and resegregation in suburban municipalities. To prevent resegregation, many integrated municipalities have adopted integration maintenance measures such as efforts to inform people that racial…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, Community Programs, Desegregation Effects
Beckum, Leonard C.; Dasho, Stefan J. – 1982
The school desegregation movement grew out of a concern for educational equity, which has a basis in constitutional/judicial principles, psychological concerns (the belief that racial isolation is psychologically damaging to the disadvantaged), and black nationalism (manifested in a concern for developing students' self-esteem). Cultural…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects, Disadvantaged
1964
MANY STATEMENTS FROM CIVIC, CHURCH, AND BUSINESS LEADERS FOLLOWING THE SIGNING OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT SUPPORTED THE PRESIDENT'S BELIEF THAT AMERICA IS A NATION OF LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS. IN CONGRESS SEVERAL SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES, SUCH AS SENATOR ELLENDER, LOUISIANA, REP. WELTNER OF GEORGIA, AND REP. PURCELL OF TEXAS WHO HAD VOTED AGAINST THE…
Descriptors: Biracial Committees, Community Attitudes, Community Leaders, Community Problems
Aspira, Inc., New York, NY. – 1979
School desegregation did not lead to greater understanding of the Hispanic community by white educational personnel in two school districts analyzed to document the desegregation process and the impact of school desegregation on the Hispanic community. Each district was in a white-controlled, tri-ethnic community in its second year of successful…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Community Involvement, Court Litigation, Desegregation Effects
Ohio State General Assembly, Columbus. – 1978
This report focuses on six issues having a direct impact on school desegregation in Ohio: (1) State authority to eliminate segregation; (2) desegregation programs within school districts; (3) desegregation plans between school districts; (4) citizen participation; (5) transportation; and (6) housing. The Committee's findings in each of these areas…
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Bus Transportation, Busing, Citizen Participation
PDF pending restorationPascarella, Ernest T.; And Others – 1979
This study investigates the family and school influences on reading and mathematics achievement for students in a voluntarily desegregated school district. General findings suggest that the best main-effects predictors of both reading and mathematics achievement are prior levels of achievement in each area. However, further analysis of the data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Black Students, Conference Reports
Cordasco, Francesco, Ed.; Bucchioni, Eugene, Ed. – 1968
As an attempt to provide a source book for teachers on the Puerto Rican child, this text of collected readings focuses on sociocultural aspects. Part I deals with Puerto Rican culture; Part II, the family; Part III, experience on the mainland (conflict and acculturation), and Part IV, Puerto Rican children in North American schools. Appendixes…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Bilingualism, Cultural Background, Cultural Differences
Miller, Harold J. – 1968
To determine how attending predominantly non-Indian schools affected rural Indian pupils, a study of 12 schools was conducted with specific objectives to: (1) determine differences by type of school attended and sex, (2) isolate and identify cultural conditions related to differences, (3) determine the comparative status of Indian pupils by…
Descriptors: Achievement, American Indians, Cultural Background, Desegregation Effects
Taylor, William L.; And Others – 1975
In the debate about the existence of a link between court ordered school desegregation and white flight, a good deal of confusion has arisen over that courts have actually decided in school desegregation cases and what factors influence their decisions. This brief article represents an attempt to dispel the confusion by summarizing the major legal…
Descriptors: Black Students, Court Litigation, Court Role, Desegregation Effects
Bondarin, Arley – 1968
This report presents both a description of the White Plains Racial Balance Plan and an evaluation resting heavily on pupil achievement data. Areas covered include: background information, student population and facilities, personnel, objectives, implementation and modification of the plan, remedial instruction, population stability, parent and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Boards of Education, Community Support
Coats, William D.; And Others – 1972
This paper is based on a compilation of the first two phases of longitudinal research on desegregation effects now being conducted in the Kalamazoo Public Schools. The purpose of the Phase I study was to obtain baseline data during the spring of 1971 prior to the desegregation of the Kalamazoo Public Schools, which was initiated in the fall of…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Classroom Desegregation, Classroom Observation Techniques, Desegregation Effects
