The 30 conference papers in this collection deal with such matters as (1) urban-suburban cooperation in solving the educational problems of de facto segregation, (2) the effectiveness of Federal programs in helping the Negro, (3) training for teaching in interracial classrooms, (4) school desegregation and white achievement, (5) efforts in nonpublic schools to provide equal education, (6) the reorganization of the schools in Syracuse, N.Y., and Seattle, Wash., (7) the provision of equal opportunities through compensatory education, (8) educational parks, (9) the legal aspects of racial isolation, (10) school desegregation efforts in Chicago; Syracuse; Evanston, Ill.; Hartford, Conn.; White Plains, N.Y.; Teaneck, N.J.; and other cities, (11) the implications of school desegregation and integration for research and, in general, (12) the crisis in American education resulting from segregated education in the past and present desegregation efforts. (EF)