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 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 scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills taken by 179 Black and Hispanic students who voluntarily transferred from predominantly minority schools to desegregated schools were examined. They reveal that a desegregated education obtained through voluntary transfer has no significant effect on the reading and mathematics achievement levels of…

REPORTED ARE SOME OF THE ACADEMIC EFFECTS OF THE OPTIONAL TRANSFER PLAN IN NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK, WHERE STUDENTS FROM A NEGRO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WERE BUSED TO OTHER SCHOOLS. METROPOLITAN ACHIEVEMENT TEST SCORES OF TRANSFER STUDENTS IN GRADES ONE THROUGH FIVE SHOWED THAT THE MEAN GRADE EQUIVALENTS WERE CONSISTENT WITH GROWTH SCORES FOR NONTRANSFER…

Operation Hospitality was a program started 4 years ago to bus children from all black inner city parochial schools to all white parochial schools, largely suburban. The first phase of an overall evaluation of the program involved the attitudes of the participating student populations. The second aspect of evaluation which was planned involved an…