This report is a continuing analysis of the achievement of ethnic minority children who are bused for integration, and of other children attending the schools receiving bused pupils. The findings reported here are limited to children in the primary grades. The achievement of kindergarten and first grade bused and "receiving" pupils has…

The Fort Worth Independent School District continued its court-ordered desegregation plan implemented in 1971-72. The evaluated design utilized in 1971-72 was extended to include bused black students in grade 3 as well as those in grades 4 and 5, and to ascertain any effects on the achievement of white third, fourth, and fifth grade students in…

Thomas Pettigrew and his associates have missed the essential point of my study. The essential requirement for sound reasoning on this matter is observance of the distinction among the findings of science, the results of policy, and the dictates of law or morality. I studied the results of existing policies of induced school integration (all 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…

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.…

This paper reports findings from the first two years of a 3-year study to evaluate the effects of court-ordered busing in Waco, Texas. The objective of this study is to determine minority student achievement gains or losses, attitudes toward busing and school desegregation, the degree of interracial cooperation and acceptance in Waco schools, and…

This is a fourth in a series of reports concerning the progress of the busing program in District Four, Chicago, Illinois, covering the school year of September 1970-June 1971. The four purposes of the plan as originally stated are as follows: (1) to relieve serious overcrowding at the May and Spencer Schools; (2) to promote stabilization through…

The flood of new programs funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act of 1965 provided fertile grounds for doctoral dissertation research on the education of the disadvantaged. Bits and pieces of research throughout the country are entombed in DISSERTATION ABSTRACTS INTERNATIONAL and university libraries. The ERIC/IRCD…

THIS PAPER REVIEWS RESEARCH ON PUBLIC SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AND SUGGESTS DIRECTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDIES. IT NOTES THAT RESEARCHERS SHOULD CONTINUE TO INVESTIGATE THE FACTORS WHICH AFFECT THE PACE OF DESEGREGATION, SUCH AS THE PRESSURES OF THE NEGRO COMMUNITY AND OF THE STATE AND OTHER AGENCIES. FOR EXAMPLE, THEY SHOULD STUDY THE SPECIFIC…