This testimony, before the May 1974 public hearings of the New York City Commission on Human Rights by the Administrator, Urban-Suburban Transfer Program and Inter district Transfer Program, West Irondequoit School District, New York, reviews a program which began with 25 minority group youngsters from one racially-imbalanced Rochester school…

A rebuttal of a negative evaluation of busing programs published by David Armor, which focuses on the methodological shortcomings of an investigation of a voluntary busing program in metropolitan Boston called METCO done by Armor. (JM)

The main purpose of this study is to present documented facts concerning the operation of school desegregation in communities which are engaged in the process. The purpose of the Commission on Civil Rights is to identify problems which recur in school districts undergoing desegregation, and to describe how they have been met. Specifically, the…

Argues both that there is no evidence to suggest that we abandon our long-time commitment to quality integrated education; and that we must oppose vigorously those national and local forces attempting to deprive local school districts of one important desegregation technique--transportation. (Author/JM)

This study originated in 1968, when desegregation was being carried out mainly on a one-way basis, by busing minority pupils to predominantly white schools. Two of the districts studied, Charlottesville, Virginia, and Providence, Rhode Island, were then groping their way toward racial balance, primarily because of local pressures, and both had…

This study reported methodology and results of a longitudinal evaluation of elementary students. With segregated classroom settings used as controls, students were placed in each of the following experimental classroom types: (1) those with size reduced and compensatory features involving primary-level students in an all-black school; (2) those…

These reports on school integration in Pasadena (California), Tampa-Hillsborough (Florida), Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Winston-Salem/Forsyth (North Carolina), and Pontiac (Michigan) are based on interviews and material gathered by Commission on Civil Rights staff members from January 10, 1972, through March 29, 1972. In each school district staff…

Three hundred and fifty Buffalo public school second graders, most of whom were Negro, were transferred in spring, 1966 from an inner-city school to schools 90 percent or more white. Two hundred and ten second graders, mostly Negro, were transferred from an adjacent inner-city school to five other peripheral schools. A comparison was made of the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

THE STUDY FOCUSED ON THE BROAD PROBLEM OF ANALYZING THE PROCESSES OF ADJUSTMENT OF A SAMPLE OF STUDENTS TO THE NEW INTERRACIAL SITUATION AS IT DEVELOPED IN USUAL SCHOOL ROUTINES AND ACTIVITIES. THE SURVEY INCLUDED JUNIOR AND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN WASHINGTON, D.C. THE PROCEDURE USED WAS A SERIES OF QUESTIONS ON THE INFORMANT'S OWN…