Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters: New Directions and Innovative Voluntary Approaches to Interdistrict School Desegregation.

Hankins, Grover G.

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Like a Bridge over Troubled Waters: New Directions and Innovative Voluntary Approaches to Interdistrict School Desegregation.

Hankins, Grover G.

Journal of Negro Education, v58 n3 p345-56 Sum 1989

Presents an historic overview of school desegregation court decisions. Discusses governmental and socioeconomic factors that have influenced school desegregation policy. Describes the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) school desegregation settlement based on voluntary interdistrict student transfers and efforts to remedy racial isolation by integrating neighborhoods. (MW)

Descriptors: Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Elementary Secondary Education, Minority Group Children, Neighborhood Integration, Racial Integration, Racially Balanced Schools, School Desegregation, Social Integration, Urban Schools, Voluntary Desegregation

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