Based on a sample of students in 11 public high schools, the article explores the relationship between class racial composition and academic outcomes for Black students under conditions including degree of friendship with Whites and characteristics of Black and White students. Concludes that the impact of interracial contact on academic outcomes…

The Court has not provided a clear course for those bent on eliminating segregation in our schools. The courts must put the distinction between de jure and de facto segregation behind them and focus on the elimination of segregated school systems. Such a resolution is within the spirit of "Brown." (Author/IRT)

Examines the implications of unevenly distributed minority pupils and the Dutch choice system for policies on ethnic segregation, based on a sample of 27 municipalities serving 23% of all Dutch primary school pupils. Over one-third of all municipalities take no ameliorative action. When a school's minority enrollment exceeds 50-60%, the Dutch…

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, which theoretically ended school segregation in America. But many schools are as segregated today as they were before the ruling, and Black children throughout the United States are performing at the bottom of the American educational system. The nation's capital, Washington,…

My response to Johnston's (2004) "W(h)ither the Deaf Community?" is theoretical in nature and sociological in perspective. I comment on how Johnston's particular concern for the possible demise of Australian Sign Language (Auslan) in Australia's currently transforming social and medical context surrounding childhood deafness is legitimate but…

Are most charter schools more racially segregated than traditional public schools (TPS)? How do local circumstances affect the degree to which charter schools are more racially segregated or diverse than TPSs? As the charter school movement in Michigan and nationwide gains popularity, these questions have become important policy issues. In order…

Using detailed administrative data for the public K-12 schools of North Carolina, we measure racial segregation in the public schools of North Carolina. With data for the 2005/06 school year, we update previously published calculations that measure segregation in terms of unevenness in racial enrollment patterns both between schools and within…

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An analysis of current and potential future problems facing efforts to desegregate Boston schools in which a number of suggestions are offered to facilitate the process of quality education for all by adequately preparing community, parent, and school personnel and nurturing student interracial initiatives. (EH)

Elementary school enrollments for the Fall of 1983 in Broward County (Florida) were studied in order to test the following hypothesis: relevant policy promulgated by the Board of Education did not result in "racially" balanced elementary schools. These specific questions were addressed: (1) To what extent were the elementary schools of…

This paper outlines developments in the segregation of Hispanics in public schools. It begins with a review of Gary Orfield's study, "Desegregation of Black and Hispanic Students from 1968 to 1980." Orfield determined that during the last decade Hispanics have been increasingly segregated in public schools, and are currently even more…

In September, 1973, a white principal in a predominantly black elementary school in Portland, Oregon gave an interview to the city's largest daily newspaper: the resulting controversy helps sharpen the focus of the debate concerning means of achieving school integration. (JM)

This report summarizes the results of a survey on the status of school desegregation in 47 major school districts in the United States. A profile of each district is provided together with a report on the desegregation status of that district. Supreme Court decisions with regard to school desegregation from 1954 to the present, the history of…

This report notes that the Jefferson County, Kentucky, school system has failed to implement the 1975 Court-ordered desegregation plan. Data supplied by the Board of Education and data taken from previous state Human Rights Commission reports demonstrate that Jefferson County schools continue to manifest racial imbalance among students, faculty…

In this paper the author takes the position that integrated schools are basic to a genuinely integrated society. Similarly, only through equal education can we offer equal opportunity to every citizen. Segregated schools, the author states, are a result of poverty and government sanctioned segregation in other areas. The most obvious of these…