The 1954 Brown Vs. Board of Education decision went beyond legal analysis to demonstrate the cruelty and immorality of discrimination against black children. It was asserted in the Brown decision that separate education cannot be equal education, and that segregation has a particularly detrimental effect upon black children. The negative impact of…

This paper cites some of the contributions that sociology has made to desegregation policy. The major contribution, made by public opinion research, is establishing the level of support or opposition to busing policy. A second contribution to desegregation policy has been made by those sociologists and social psychologists who have studied the…

States that the presence of Muslims in British schools is being used to justify the secularization of assemblies and other school routines. Notes that such secularization is against the wishes of most Muslims. Argues that Muslims need to disseminate their views more widely and effectively to gain a more sympathetic hearing of their position. (GEA)

This article reports recent research into aspects of the differences between Protestant and Catholic schools in Northern Ireland, namely, whether the two systems vary in terms of the balance of subjects in examination passes and the qualifications of leavers. Differences are presented and discussed. (CT)

Since school busing has not desegregated schools, a plan is presented allowing students to transfer with free transportation within a school district. If this plan is not adopted, the need is cited for federal legislation that prohibits compulsory busing from placing a burden on any race. (MD)

Although many studies have used information at the school level to measure the degree of racial segregation between schools, the absence of more detailed data has limited the analysis of segregation within schools. Using a rich set of administrative data on North Carolina public schools, this paper examines patterns of enrollment both across and…

This paper considers the role of private schools in an assessment of segregation in K-12 schools, with special reference to the south. It presents evidence to support two main conclusions. First, private schools have grown in importance in the south since 1960, in contrast to their declining importance in the rest of the country. This contrary…

A Congressman from California examines the leading proposals for constitutional amendments and statutes restricting the use of busing to achieve school desegregation. Maintains that enactment of the antibusing proposals would not only be unconstitutional, but would undermine much of the judicial progress during the last twenty years. (Author/SF)

The effects on education of, and the quality of education in, the recently developed private schools in the 11-state South are discussed. (NQ)

Article suggests that to really end segregation in the schools, students must also be exposed to the end of economic and class segregation. (ML)

However difficult desegregation may have been, and however distant full integration may still be, many Southern school systems have moved far enough in that direction to realize that the past is dead, and some of them may be beginning to see total equity as an asset to be prized. (Author)

The Laboratory School-Teacher Education Module, Western Regional School Desegregation Project of the University of California at Riverside was designed to help a select group of teachers find some of the answers in solving problems of school desegregation. (SB)

There are two basic reasons why the black educator finds it difficult, at best, to be an agent of change in the black school. First, he was trained by the very system he is expected to change, and secondly, he is a certified agent of that system. (Author)