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Ogletree, Earl J.; Starkman, Stanley S. – 1980
The Chicago Board of Education has been attempting to formulate a school desegregation plan to satisfy the U.S. Department of Education (HEW) guidelines for a decade. Public hearings and community participation are to be an integral part of the planning process. To determine the community's attitudes toward school desegregation, over one thousand…
Descriptors: Blacks, Busing, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
JOHNSON, CARROLL F. – 1967
IN WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK, A SUBURBAN CITY WITH A PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT OF 8,700, 17 PERCENT NEGRO, MEASURES WERE TAKEN TO INSURE RACIAL BALANCE THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM. IN THE PAST THE CITY HAD INITIATED VARIOUS TEMPORARY SCHOOL DESEGREGATION ACTIONS, BUT BY 1964 THE NECESSITY OF A PERMANENT SOLUTION HAD BECOME APPARENT. SINCE AT THE HIGH…
Descriptors: Black Students, Board of Education Policy, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Schools
McWilliams, Dorothy – 1968
De facto segregation in schools deprives children of certain minority groups of true equality of opportunity. Those people who propose doing nothing about integration are simply making excuses for avoiding change. The Educational Policies Commission of the National Education Association has set up five principles which may be used as guidelines in…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Equal Education
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1977
This is a report of school desegregation in Greenville, Mississippi. In 1964, five years before ordered to do so by a federal judge, Greenville initiated its own plan for majority-to-minority crossover of students on a "freedom of choice" basis. The school board also initiated a voluntary teacher transfer program that met with…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Students, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Supreme Court of the U. S., Washington, DC. – 1974
This pamphlet is the complete United States Supreme Court opinion, together with concurring and dissenting opinions, on the Detroit metropolitan area school integration case. The United States District Court in the case had found that the Detroit Board of Education had created and perpetuated school segregation in Detroit. To remedy this…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Court Litigation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Plans
Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC. – 1972
The main purpose of this study is to present documented facts concerning the operation of school desegregation in communities which are engaged in the process. The purpose of the Commission on Civil Rights is to identify problems which recur in school districts undergoing desegregation, and to describe how they have been met. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
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Egerton, John – 1976
This report provides an account of the desegregation process in several southern states. It contains detailed case studies of five southern school districts (Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; Williamsburg County, South Carolina; Clarke County, Georgia; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Hillsborough County, Florida) and shorter profiles of six…
Descriptors: Black Education, Case Studies, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
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Taylor, William L. – Urban Review, 1978
If past experience is taken as a guide, desegregation in the big cities will not come easily, yet interdistrict desegregation of public education is the key to allowing minority youth to participate in the mainstream of the economy in addition to relieving the tension between the races. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans, Metropolitan Areas
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Ozio, Ronald – Integrated Education, 1977
The Corpus Christi Independent School District is undergoing the third phase of its integration order. Officials, who once talked of appealing the remedies as soon as the final phase was ordered, will not do so. The death of the unpopular computer grid plan defused the major complaints. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
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Grant, William R. – Integrated Education, 1977
The Flint public school system, Michigan's second largest, has adopted an aggressive magnet school plan but the project has fallen short of ending segregation in the city's classrooms. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Classroom Desegregation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Hawley, Willis D. – Equity and Choice, 1988
There is much resistance to desegregation. People do not believe it is beneficial for the following reasons: (1) it is not clear how the movement of students will improve schools; (2) effective, well-defined desegregation plans are lacking; (3) the research evidence of benefits is thin; and (4) critical problems such as instructional management…
Descriptors: Blacks, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans, Educational Benefits
Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Statements released by the Office for Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education summarizing the office's findings on the states' progress in meeting goals set out in their desegregation plans are presented. (MLW)
Descriptors: Civil Rights Legislation, College Desegregation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Plans
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Biles, Roger – Journal of Negro Education, 1986
A close examination of Memphis, Tennessee, public school desegregation since Brown vs. Board of Education demonstrates how successful many southern communities have been in circumventing the decision. By 1981 White flight to the suburbs and increased enrollment in private schools left a public school system 76 percent Black and 24 percent White.…
Descriptors: Black Education, Busing, Civil Rights, Desegregation Methods
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Orfield, Gary – Metropolitan Education, 1986
Introduction to special issue on school desegregation. Asserts that the desegregation debate is often more about values than facts. Emphasizes that the basic problem of school segregation is intimately related to the problems of metropolitan areas. Attributes breakthroughs in school integration to national policy decisions in the 1960s and 1970s.…
Descriptors: Desegregation Plans, Educational Policy, Federal Government, Metropolitan Areas
Clinchy, Evans – Equity and Choice, 1986
Parents from Buffalo, New York, talk about desegregation, magnet schools and parent choice over the past ten years. (GC)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Plans, Elementary Secondary Education
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