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Mack, Raymond W., Ed. – 1968
This collection of case studies on school desegregation in nine American communities (Kalamazoo, Michigan; Newark, Delaware; Riverside and Los Angeles, California; Savannah, Georgia; River City and Bayon County, Mississippi; Chicago, Illinois; and, Hempstead, New York.) summarizes and interprets the struggles to solve this domestic social problem.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Racial Relations
Peer reviewedTrombley, William – Integrated Education, 1977
To date, the magnet schools in St. Louis have satisfied the federal judge who has been supervising school desegregation. However, federal appeals court judges have indicated that they believe the plan falls short of meaningful integration. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Costs, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
McMillan, Charles B. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1977
Reviews the strengths and weaknesses of the Boston magnet school program. The author concludes that integration in the 1980s will need to be metropolitan and voluntary. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Magnet Schools
Peer reviewedJirak, Ivan L. – Clearing House, 1972
Describes a successful program of individualizing students to each other's race by way of outdoor activities such as rock climbing, parachuting, river running, etc. so as to defuse racial tensions. (AN)
Descriptors: Camping, De Facto Segregation, Desegregation Methods, Field Experience Programs
Peer reviewedFuerst, J.S.; Pupo, Daniel – Urban Education, 1983
School desegregation efforts in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, can serve as a model for other systems with similar Black and White population ratios. Milwaukee school desegregation has combined limited busing, improved conditions in all-Blacks schools, and a limit of no more than 50 percent of Black students in integrated schools. (AOS)
Descriptors: Busing, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Racial Composition
Doherty, David – Principal, 1982
The public schools in Flint (Michigan) offer a good example of how magnet schools can help desegregate a school system effectively and voluntarily. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Bell, Derrick A., Jr. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1980
Argues that Blacks want effective schooling more than they want integration plans based on racial balance. Argues that integration needs to be redefined to be consonant with this desire and to make it more culturally democratic and more educationally effective. (IRT)
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Parent Attitudes
Davidson, Jack L. – Executive Educator, 1989
Describes a Florida superintendent's harrowing experience after ignoring the governor's directive to defy a court order to begin forced student busing. The superintendent and the courts eventually triumphed by acting in the best interests of the students and the school system. The governor was fined and lost his bid for reelection. (MLH)
Descriptors: Busing, Court Litigation, Crisis Management, Desegregation Methods
Direct linkLin, Linda J. – Teachers College Record, 2007
Background: Traditional approaches to race in the United States have located race in individuals and groups and reduced the ambiguities of interaction to differences in attitudes, levels of awareness, and stages of identity development. Alternatively, locating race in social stratification has made it an over-determined product of inequalities in…
Descriptors: Race, Social Stratification, Interpersonal Relationship, Educational Change
Saltman, Juliet – 1983
This study of one neighborhood stabilization effort is based on interviews with 312 residents of an Akron (Ohio) neighborhood which changed from 11 percent to 57 percent black in the past decade. The results of the survey of residents' concerns in this racially changing neighborhood confirmed Hunter's theory that organizations (in this case, The…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Change, Community Organizations, Desegregation Methods
Coleman, James S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1976
Coleman reasserts his position on white flight in answering charges raised against him in the preceeding issue. (IRT)
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Racial Integration, Research Methodology
Mills, Roger – Civil Rights Digest, 1974
While the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) has been charged with the responsibility of withholding Federal assistance from school districts that do not comply with the non-discrimination clauses of Title VI of the 1964 act, it is charged that HEW's Office of Civil Rights has not asserted jurisdiction and investigated, and HEW has…
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Equal Education, Northern Schools
Carol, Lila N.; Day, Robert – 1977
In addition to collecting and analyzing information about progress on desegregation plan implementation, each of the court ordered citizens groups mentioned functions as a "third party" between the defendants (state education departments and local school officials) and the plaintiffs, and among school employees, students, parents, the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Citizen Role, Citizens Councils, Court Role
1962
THE MORRISTOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD FOUR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, GRADES K-8, AND A SINGLE HIGH SCHOOL. THERE WERE NO JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS. ONE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, LAFAYETTE, HAD 95 PERCENT NEGRO POPULATION, AND THE OTHER THREE HAD FEWER THAN 10 PERCENT NEGROES EACH. THE EDUCATION AT LAFAYETTE SCHOOL WAS GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS INFERIOR TO THE OTHER…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Desegregation Methods, Northern Schools, Open Enrollment
KEPPEL, FRANCIS – 1964
EDUCATORS AND CITIZENS ARE EXHORTED NOT TO LOSE SIGHT OF OR TO CONFUSE THE REAL ISSUES OF RACIAL SEGREGATION IN THE SCHOOLS WITH THE OTHER PERIPHERAL ISSUES.THROUGH THE SHORTSIGHTEDNESS OF MANY AND THE RECKLESSNESS OF SOME, GOOD POLICIES OF EDUCATION ARE NOW BEING TURNED ONE AGAINST THE OTHER, BRINGING THE CAUSE OF INTEGRATION INTO A COLLISION…
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Educational Planning, Educational Policy, Educational Quality
