Examines the effect of school desegregation upon the process of students' status attainment by comparing high school students in segregated and desegregated schools. Few differences were found in levels of educational and occupational aspirations or educational attainment. However, marked differences were found in the process of attitude…

Reports on race, discrimination, and affirmative action issues on selected college and university campuses in approximately 40 states and the District of Columbia. (GC)

A major consideration in these hypotheses is the role of socioeconomic influences in white flight and white "nonentrance." (IRT)

For most children, the racial composition of their neighborhood determines the racial composition of their school. Segregated housing patterns translate into a highly segregated educational system, which can then result in disparities in educational opportunities and an institutionalized mechanism for the reproduction of racial inequality. To…

This study examined the reasons behind exclusion from school, emphasizing the exclusion of students with special needs, ethnic minority children, and children looked after by local authorities. Data collection included interviews with local education authority (LEA) officers; interviews with teachers and administrators; and documents from the…

Some memories are presented of black principals at Booker T. Washington High School, Columbia, the first public high school for blacks in South Carolina. Former students recall some of the quotations and sayings these principals used to inspire students. Booker T. Washington High School, which operated from 1916 to 1970 as a segregated public…

The issue of social segregation in schools has seen a recent resurgence of interest--in the US, UK and internationally--as the debate rages on about whether policies that expand families' freedom to choose amongst schools encourage divergence or convergence in the types of pupil different schools admit. Most attention has been focussed on…

A review on both a state-by-state basis and on the national level of developments pertaining to school integration, including integration litigation, Office of Civil Rights, H.E.W., policy and actions, student rights, public school enrollment trends, affirmative action by universities in their employment practices, and others. (JM)

Summarizes a study which attempted to determine if black children manifested higher racial pride in a racially mixed environment and whether the type of racial mixing made any difference, using a modified doll test. (Author/JM)

Asserts that judicial hostility to majority-black schools reinforces the national belief that minority-black schools are bad schools, thus insuring that integration in education must continue to reflect preference for middle-class, white behavior. (Author/JM)

A rejoinder by the Chairman of the Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Tougaloo College, to an article by Nancy St. John in the January-February issue of Integrated Education." (JM)

The ruling by U. S. District Judge Stephen J. Roth on September 27, 1971, in Bradley versus Milliken, a case involving charges by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that the Detroit School system was segregated. (JM)

Revision of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, Georgia, April 11, 1968. Analysis of self-concept measures on segregated Black and white subjects of high school and college age reveals no significant differences when social status is controlled for. (JM)

Excerpts from an address by the U.S. District Judge who presided in the Pasadena, Calif., School case, to the Association of California Integroup Relations Educators on May 20, 1970. (JM)