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Direct linkNapier, Alyssa – History of Education Quarterly, 2023
In 1963 and 1964, organizers in Boston held Freedom Stay-Outs--one-day school boycotts-- to protest the neglect of predominantly Black schools from the Boston School Committee, the governing body of the Boston Public Schools. Boycotting students attended Freedom Schools, where they learned about Black history and discussed issues facing Black…
Descriptors: Public Schools, African American Students, African American Organizations, African American Culture
Biffle, Richard L. – 1978
The only way that a program of school desegregation can be successfully implemented is with strong community participation. Boards of Education must develop policies to provide quality education in a culturally pluralistic society. Through community education, the school sytem can look at the total community in terms of its needs, wants, problems,…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Involvement, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textUpton, James N.; Fonow, Mary Margaret – 1981
This report is based on a case study which examined the efforts of community organizations in Columbus, Ohio to strengthen citizen participation (through the use of networking strategies) in the implementation phase of school desegregation. The report describes interorganizational networks as a function of exchange relations. Specialization,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Desegregation Methods
Weatherford, M. Stephen – 1978
Most scholarly literature on school desegregation treats opposition to busing as racist, reactionary, or as springing from deeper conditions of alienation or anomie. From this viewpoint, anti-busing demonstrations are episodic, unorganized and not founded on any thoroughgoing comprehension of the immediate policy issue. Busing is merely the…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Civil Rights, Community Involvement, Desegregation Litigation
Patton, Richard H.; Laue, James H. – 1979
This manual was designed for community and school groups to aid them in clarifying their goals and selecting strategies for resolving issues related to school desegregation. After a brief review of the law, Part 1 reviews the major issues involved in the school desegregation process: quality education, white flight, middle-class minority flight,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation
Gordon, Edmund W.; And Others – 1972
Orangeburg, South Carolina implemented a court approved geographical zoning plan and a plan clustering and pairing schools for the 1971-72 school year. All school staffs currently reflect the district's racial population. In the process of unifying the school district, numerous meetings and workshops that involved students, staff and the community…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Case Studies, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects
Beck, William W.; And Others – 1978
These papers examine sociological and political problems associated with school desegregation on the local level in Dallas, Boston, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Detroit, and Los Angeles. Each presentation addresses several of the following concerns: (1) community and school composition, racial and ethnic ratios, and business and political…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement, Curriculum Development
Platt, William J.; And Others – 1966
This report provides the groundwork for a study of racial balance in San Francisco's public schools. Outlined are patterns which emerged from the experiences other cities had in trying to combat racial imbalance. An overview of interviews with community groups illustrates the priorities such a study should be concerned with in the area of pupil…
Descriptors: Attendance Patterns, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Desegregation Methods
Morgan, David R.; And Others – 1982
This handbook was prepared to provide guidance and suggestions primarily for school officials who are developing a plan for school desegregation or who are trying to revise an existing plan. Indications of what has and has not worked in other districts are based on experts' recommendations, on case studies from other communities, and on the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Busing, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement
Broh, C. Anthony; Trent, William T. – 1981
This volume presents a review of the qualitative literature pertaining to desegregation strategies and outcomes, and school characteristics. The review was based on the following objectives of desegregation policy: elimination of racial isolation; improvement of racial relations and academic achievement; promotion of positive community attitudes;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Attitude Measures, Community Involvement
Hope, John, III, Ed. – 1976
The history of school desegregation in Prince George's County from 1953-1973 is documented in this report, presenting a detailed chronology and analysis of the forces and figures that affect realization of children's constitutional rights. Chapters include: an overview of Prince George's County, a racial profile of the schools 1953-64, HEW's…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Board of Education Policy, Board of Education Role, Bus Transportation
Aspira, Inc., New York, NY. – 1980
Volume I of a five-volume study of the trends in segregation of Hispanic students in public schools contains a review of relevant litigation and legislation dating from the 1850's and notes the almost negligible effect on Hispanic desegregation of such landmark events as the 1954 "Brown" decision and the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Community Involvement
