An advisory report to the Board of Education of the Inglewood Unified School District was prepared by California's Bureau of Intergroup Relations. The document contains a section on the pupil distribution in the public schools. Also presented are such aspects of educational opportunity and intergroup relations as indicators of inequality, the…

Under the Navajo Emergency Education Program, launched in 1953, dormitories were built in towns near reservations and Indian children attended public schools under contractual agreements between the schools and the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). In 1964 three BIA educators were designated to conduct an investigation of the program. The following…

Major speeches presented at the conference on human and civil rights in education are summarized. Issues discussed at the conference include: the extent to which standardized testing infringes on the rights of students and educators; the existing uses of educational testing in public schools; and ways to eliminate misuses of tests by educators,…

Emphasizing the dedication with which Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-92) labored to achieve advancement in American public education, the biography discusses the historical and political events which highlighted his career. Describing Hayes as a man who stood above party politicking in his years in the White House (1877-81), the biography maintains…

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…

This report describes the status of blacks in higher education during the 1973-74 academic year and also is a reference work that summarizes data about blacks in higher education in general. Discussed are: (1) problems of the data on blacks in college; (2) access, distribution, and persistence of blacks in college; (3) barriers to equal…

Various questions concerned with the role of the educational system in affecting the pattern of inequality of life incomes within the Federal Republic of Germany are addressed. Sections include an introduction, a discussion on the distribution of benefits and costs of education, and a discussion on the efficiency and equity of the educational…

Following a detailed review of present tuition and financial aid policies, the Committee on Tuition and Other Student Costs focused on recommended changes in policy and the implication of such policies on the costs to students of access to higher education opportunities. The committee affirmed its belief that an important goal of the Board of…

Information pertaining to adult education and vocational-technical programs as well as college and university aids is provided in this booklet. The booklet has been divided into three chapters: (1) "Education Beyond High School"; (2) "Native American Programs of Assistance"; and (3) "Student Aids Programs (not specifically for Indians)." Chapter 1…

Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), the largest Federal aid-to-education program, was passed in 1965 to provide financial assistance to local school districts in planning and operating special programs for educationally deprived children. It is a supplementary program, designed to upgrade the educational opportunities of…

This document contains the substance of three lectures delivered at Memphis State University in June 1970. It should be of interest to recent high school graduates, their parents, and other laymen interested in American higher education. The first lecture discusses the history of the community college movement and the changes in popular attitudes…

In his presentation at the start of the seminar, the author argues that the total commitment of civil rights groups to school integration as the sole means for enabling black children to obtain the "equal educational opportunity" guaranteed them by the Supreme Court is not only obsolete policy, but reflects a wasteful, dangerous and demeaning…

The contents of this volume published by the Center for Law and Education, which was established to protect and advance the legal interests of the poor through research and action on the legal implications of educational policies, include the following articles: "Introduction" and "Sexism in Public Education: Litigation…

This is a final report to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, which requested The Rand Corporation to prepare a design for a research program on school desegregation. The report's audience is the group of policy-makers and research scientists who would be concerned with developing such a research program. This volume contains an overall…

This book is organized in six parts. The Introduction opens with a brief historical perspective by W.E.B. DuBois. The trends of social research in racial discrimination are chronicled in the second selection. Part 2 begins our analysis with an indepth look at housing discrimination. Part 3 applies this analysis of housing to discrimination in…