Updates the implementation of the court ordered metropolitan school desegregation plan in Wilmington, Delaware. Proposes that problems being experienced in the school district can be traced not only to pupil reassignment and busing issues but also to governmental and administrative difficulties tied to district reorganization. (Author/MK)

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.…

A communication program brought a smooth beginning to the desegregation process in the merger of Wilmington (Delaware) schools with those in the ten surrounding suburban districts. (Author/MLF)

Examines pre-integration conditions in a metropolitan, multiple district school desegregation situation. This case study presents background information, analyzes the politics of desegregation and bussing independent of metropolitan and interdistrict considerations, analyzes the interdistrict and metropolitan aspects of the case, and, analyzes…

This analysis compares student test scores before and after school busing in New Castle County, Delaware, in an attempt to see if busing to achieve racial balance reduces the achievement gap between black and white students. School authorities pre-tested students with the California Achievement Test (CAT) in 1978-79, the first year of busing, and…

Excerpts from recently-released Department of Education reports outline the success of Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Virginia in recruiting black students and faculty to predominantly white state colleges and universities. (MSE)

Describes the planning that has gone into the program for integrating 11 school districts in New Castle County, Delaware. (IRT)

This book contains reports on ten school districts' responses to court ordered desegregation. The book begins with an historical background and a discussion of racial politics and community conflict. Following the introduction are the ten case studies, whose titles reveal the city and issues under examination: (1) "Boston, Massachusetts:…

This report attempts to illustrate how courts have undertaken the task of relating the constitutional mandate for equal educational opportunity to the political and institutional issues posed in specific school desegregation cases since the Supreme Court's Brown decision. The first section of the report is an introduction to legalism and politics…

It is easy to forget the continuous, slow, often difficult path that the May 17, 1954 Brown decision of the Supreme Court has taken and the many small--and often forgotten--problems that have been faced in the past 22 years. Delaware had some warning in 1952 that desegregation might occur and what it might involve. Most school districts received…