IN A REPORT PUBLISHED IN 1962, IT WAS CONCLUDED THAT TOTAL SCHOOL DESEGREGATION IN NORTH CAROLINA WAS NOT LIKELY IN THE FORSEEABLE FUTURE UNLESS FORCED BY COURT DECREES. THE BASIS FOR THE PREDICTION WAS THE HISTORY OF APPLICATION OF TWO ACTS--THE PUPIL ASSIGNMENT ACT, WHICH TRANSFERRED AUTHORITY OF PUPIL ASSIGNMENT TO LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS, AND THE…

Volume III-B contains appendices to the analytic report in Volume III-A of the five-volume study. In Appendix A three basic indices of segregation used in the study are described as functions of several independent variables and are defined by assigning definite values to those variables. Appendix B provides projection formulas used for estimating…

Failures of school officials in Jefferson County, Kentucky to desegregate their student bodies since 1975 are cited in this report and substantiated with charts and tables. The resegregation, rather than desegregation, of elementary schools in 1977-78 is documented. It is shown that 12 elementary schools have never been in compliance with…

This document comments on the accuracy of findings extracted from the Equality of Educational Opportunity Report, authored by a federally appointed research team headed by James S. Coleman. According to the authors, dificiencies and inconsistencies in the study center around the method of collecting data, the design and validity of the instruments…

This essay attempts to assist the educational administrator with race relations problems. By tracing the legal implications, judicial support for school desegregation is placed in perspective. Potential financial incentives for communities desegregating their school system are then discussed. Illustrations of communities' transportation and school…

PROFESSIONAL OBSERVER TEAMS ASSESSED THE EXTENT OF INTEGRATION, ACHIEVEMENT, PUPIL-STAFF AND PEER RELATIONSHIPS, AND STUDENT SELF-IMAGE PERCEPTION IN SEVEN MIDDLE SCHOOLS. AS PART OF THE PLAN TO ESTABLISH MIDDLE SCHOOLS (INSTITUTED IN A SYSTEMWIDE 4-4-4 GRADE DISTRIBUTION) TO PROMOTE INTEGRATION AND QUALITY EDUCATION, SPECIFIC JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS…

In this bibliography 277 works on black education, published principally since 1968, are listed. Some problems in improving educational opportunities for blacks are outlined in the introduction. Trends in the literature and the positions of various writers in the field of black education are also criticized. (GC)

Examines the judicial posture assumed by the Supreme Court in Keyes v. School District Number 1 in defining the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation, the impact of the Washington v. Davis decision on the intent requirement, and the impact of these decisions on litigants. (Author/IRT)

Integrated education as it exists in many communities is actually harmful to black children and works to devastate rather than develop black talent; proponents of school integration must put effort into improving the quality of all schools. (JD)

Solutions to the educational problems of the black community will ultimately require the mobilization of the political strength of the black community on a number of fronts (employment, culture, technology, international relations), and the exercise of effective black decision making authority within each of them. (JD)

Attempts to highlight some of the negative and positive aspects of the school systems which were maintained for black students during the period following the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era in southern states. Provides information from approximately 25 interviews of both black and white educators in Georgia who had some involvement in both…

This study examines how standardized testing for teacher certification affects teacher supply and demand in inner-city schools. Results indicate that most of the teachers who fail the California Basic Educational Skills Test are minority teachers. Minimum cutoff scores must be set within the framework of balancing teacher quality with teacher…

A third of a century ago the schools of the South became the most integrated in the nation, a stunning reversal of a long history of educational apartheid written into the state laws and constitutions of the eleven states of the Confederacy and the six Border states, stretching from Oklahoma to Delaware, all of which had legally imposed de jure…

Investigated whether official school data on the 45 general high schools of Chicago support public fears that the quality of urban high schools is related to their racial balance and that mixed high schools deteriorate as blacks, minorities, and the poor spill into them. (Author/JM)

Drawing on memoranda and other materials in the federal archives, and interviews with more than a score of officials in the Johnson and Nixon administrations, this essay attempts to trace the development of the policy impact of the Coleman Report from its origins in 1964 to the end of Nixon's first term. (Author)