Dr. David Armor introduced his paper on "busing" of pupils as busing became the political battleground of American race relations. The paper includes brief descriptions of studies of school desegregation programs in the states of Connecticut, New York, Michigan, and California, together with a more extensive coverage of his own research on a…

The eighteen essays are written by educators, sociologists, and psychologists based upon studies conducted between 1964 and 1966 pertaining to racially caused educational inequalities in Northern Urban cities. The authors express the idea that educational quality can be improved more by desegregation of public schools than by curriculum or other…

The authors concern themselves primarily with 2 effects of a school desegregation plan during the semester of its inception in Gainesville, Florida. One deals with the amount of interaction between blacks and whites on the school grounds; the other concerns their attitudes toward each other. Interaction was measured, through observation during the…

After a school district is desegregated, what factors determine whether the individual school becomes a harmonious entity with full acceptance of both races, or simply another resegregated school where blacks and whites coexist uneasily? This study attempts to demonstrate that in a school's alteration from segregation to desegregation, the…

On February 22, 1973, attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Atlanta Board of Education filed a compromise desegregation plan with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. If the Court approves, this compromise will constitute the final desegregation plan for the Atlanta Public…

This research is intended to be a factual analysis of desegregation data. Section I contains historical information on school desegregation in Metro Atlanta. Included are details of the various school desegregation suits as well as information concerning the extent of desegregation in the City of Atlanta school system and the racial composition of…

The development of school integration programs throughout the country has made possible a test of the hypothesis that school integration enhances black achievement, aspirations, self-esteem, race relations, and opportunities for higher education. The programs reviewed here have two important characteristics that may limit ability to their being…

The first section of this issue of the Bulletin has to do with public service employment, a poorly understood social policy which must be defined before it can be evaluated as an anti-poverty strategy. The term public service employment (PSE) refers to the policy of using government funds to create jobs which serve a dual purpose: that of (1)…

In order to better understand the nature and consequences of social changes triggered by school desegregation, it should be instructive to analyze and interpret the patterns, stances, and roles of the leadership involved. For example, any valid interpretation of the role of leadership in the process of school desegregation would have to take into…

Contents of this issue of the NCRIEEO Newsletter include the following articles: (1) "Editor's commentary: background to the issue," by Edmund Gordon, which puts busing into perspective as an important educational resource--like physical facilities, instructional materials, and teachers--to be used to achieve educational and social…

This analysis is designed to provide Health, Education and Welfare and local school officials with a more objective and uniform assessment of desegregation problems in specific districts in the United States. To carry out the study, Lambda Corporation designed and implemented an analysis procedure for systematically assigning students to schools.…

Four cases of school integration illustrate that eliminating racial isolation has been shown to have no detrimental effect on majority children. Minority children can be benefited by increasing their achievement levels and IQ scores. All groups can benefit attitudinally. These gains, however, occur only some of the time and only under favorable…

This bibliography on busing pertains to selected items available in the Center for Urban Education library, and is largely comprised of journal articles. Those reports and documents that are in the ERIC system have been so identified by way of ED numbers; call numbers for these and other items have also been provided for location of the material.…

In view of the fact that the issue of the transportation of pupils in the public school for purposes of desegregation has now become politically and emotionally charged, the Metropolitan Applied Research Center staff decided to collect and analyze the facts on the extent, the nature, and the consequences of transportation of children to schools in…

Examines the intentions and results of school desegregation since Brown v Board of Education. Concludes that desegregation has had a greater impact on the White population than on the Black population, and that the self-concepts of both racial populations have benefitted. (FMW)