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Download full textCamp, C. William; And Others. – 1969
This report focuses on the experience of integration as perceived in the Portland, Oregon, Suburban Transfer Program, which completed its first year of operation in 1969. The voluntary plan buses 98 black students in grades one to six from inner-city schools to suburban districts. Open-ended, indepth interviews were taped with students, parents,…
Descriptors: Black Students, Bus Transportation, Community Involvement, Free Choice Transfer Programs
Teele, James E. – 1969
This voluntary school integration project uses the open enrollment plan of the Boston School Department in transporting Negro children from predominantly Negro schools in the black district to more racially balanced schools in other parts of Boston. It has involved private financing, intra-city bussing, and the initiative and participation of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Attitude Change, Black Students
Evans, Charles L. – 1973
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Achievement Tests, Black Students
Peer reviewedPettigrew, Thomas F.; And Others – Public Interest, 1973
David Armor's "The Evidence on Busing" presented a distorted and incomplete review of this politically charged topic. We respect Armor's right to publish his views against "mandatory busing." But we challenge his claim that these views are supported by scientific evidence. A full discussion of our reading of the relevant…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Armor, David J. – Public Interest, 1973
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…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects
Hanawalt, Frank; Williams, Robert L. – 1982
This history details desegregation efforts in the Seattle (Washington) public schools, beginning with the "Brown" Decision in 1954, through 1981, the year that the Board of Education adopted a long-range facilities/desegregation plan. The first four chapters deal chronologically with desegregation events, activities, and plans that took…
Descriptors: Desegregation Plans, Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends
Garber, Lee O.; Reutter, E. Edmund, Jr. – Yearbook Sch Law 1969, 1969
Chapter 8
Descriptors: Board of Education Policy, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, De Facto Segregation
1967
THIS BRIEF REVIEW OF PROJECT CONCERN, AN EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT IN WHICH INNER CITY MINORITY GROUP CHILDREN ARE BEING BUSED TO SUBURBAN MIDDLE CLASS SCHOOLS, SUMMARIZES THE PROJECT'S SUCCESSFUL FEATURES. CONTRARY TO POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS, AN OVERWHELMING NUMBER OF RANDOMLY SELECTED MINORITY GROUP PARENTS AGREED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TRANSFER…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Bus Transportation, Disadvantaged Youth
JENKINS, H. HARRISON; MIZELL, M. HAYES – 1968
PRESENTED ARE TWO SEPARATE ARTICLES, ONE CRITICIZING AND THE OTHER DEFENDING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE SCHOOL DESEGREGATION PLAN IN THE SOUTH. ACCORDING TO THIS PLAN, PUPILS (OR THEIR PARENTS) MAY CHOOSE THE SCHOOLS THEY WISH TO ATTEND WITHIN A GIVEN DISTRICT. IN THE ARTICLE AGAINST THE PLAN, IT IS ARGUED THAT PSYCHOLOGICAL AND…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Students, Civil Rights Legislation, Democratic Values
LIEBERMAN, MYRON – 1966
THIS ARTICLE CRITICIZES THE U.S. OFFICE OF EDUCATION'S (USOE) "INEFFECTIVE" ENFORCEMENT OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION AS REQUIRED UNDER THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, TITLE VI, AND THE DISCRIMINATORY DISTRIBUTION OF FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION. IT IS FELT THAT DESPITE THE NONDISCRIMINATION REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 601 OF THE TITLE FEDERAL AID TO…
Descriptors: Black Teachers, Civil Rights Legislation, Desegregation Plans, Federal Aid
Freedom House Inst. on Schools and Education, Roxbury, MA. – 1975
Since February 1974, the Freedom House Institute on Schools and Education has been attempting to chip away at the walls that divide people from their educational opportunities, by providing the information which they must have in order to deal effectively with the Boston Public School System and related educational resources. This brochure is an…
Descriptors: Attendance Records, Black Community, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects
Meadows, George R. – 1975
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the potential role of selected fiscal incentives in attempting to achieve greater racial and socioeconomic integration through open enrollment programs. Three premises underlie this paper: first, that past experience with district wide unrestricted (color-blind) open enrollment plans indicate that this…
Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, Educational Finance, Equalization Aid, Financial Policy
Carrigan, Patricia M. – 1969
This is an extensive study of Ann Arbor's first school desegregation effort, involving the 1965 closing of Jones elementary school and subsequent reassignment of its predominantly Negro population to predominantly white schools. The research focused on the first year of school desegregation, exploring academic, social, behavioral, and attitudinal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Aspiration, Black Students
Moody, Charles D., Ed.; And Others – 1972
The Program for Educational Opportunity, an institute based at the University of Michigan and established by the Office of Education pursuant to Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, is designed to assist school districts in the process of desegregation. The Program annually conducts a series of conferences. The Conference on Developments in…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Yu, Corrine M., Ed.; Taylor, William L., Ed. – 1997
Magnet schools are public schools that offer specialized subject themes or educational methodologies as a way of achieving desegregated student bodies. This document reports on a study of school districts in three communities--St. Louis (Missouri), Cincinnati (Ohio), and Nashville (Tennessee)--that have made wide use of magnets in meeting their…
Descriptors: Children, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
