On February 22, 1973, attorneys for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Atlanta Board of Education filed a compromise desegregation plan with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. If the Court approves, this compromise will constitute the final desegregation plan for the Atlanta Public…

This research is intended to be a factual analysis of desegregation data. Section I contains historical information on school desegregation in Metro Atlanta. Included are details of the various school desegregation suits as well as information concerning the extent of desegregation in the City of Atlanta school system and the racial composition of…

In order to better understand the nature and consequences of social changes triggered by school desegregation, it should be instructive to analyze and interpret the patterns, stances, and roles of the leadership involved. For example, any valid interpretation of the role of leadership in the process of school desegregation would have to take into…

This analysis is designed to provide Health, Education and Welfare and local school officials with a more objective and uniform assessment of desegregation problems in specific districts in the United States. To carry out the study, Lambda Corporation designed and implemented an analysis procedure for systematically assigning students to schools.…

Four cases of school integration illustrate that eliminating racial isolation has been shown to have no detrimental effect on majority children. Minority children can be benefited by increasing their achievement levels and IQ scores. All groups can benefit attitudinally. These gains, however, occur only some of the time and only under favorable…

This bibliography on busing pertains to selected items available in the Center for Urban Education library, and is largely comprised of journal articles. Those reports and documents that are in the ERIC system have been so identified by way of ED numbers; call numbers for these and other items have also been provided for location of the material.…

In view of the fact that the issue of the transportation of pupils in the public school for purposes of desegregation has now become politically and emotionally charged, the Metropolitan Applied Research Center staff decided to collect and analyze the facts on the extent, the nature, and the consequences of transportation of children to schools in…

Examines the intentions and results of school desegregation since Brown v Board of Education. Concludes that desegregation has had a greater impact on the White population than on the Black population, and that the self-concepts of both racial populations have benefitted. (FMW)

This article reviews the central issues during the remedy stage of school desegregation court cases and it presents the concept of net benefit analysis as an alternative to white flight studies and racial balance measures that have been used in the past. (LMO)

Explores the legacies of desegregation in cities that have a predominantly black municipal leadership. Focuses on policies in the District of Columbia and discovers a pattern relevant to similar cities. That pattern includes a tendency to isolate education issues from other municipal concerns and a reluctance to involve the courts. (MJP)

The 60-year effort to desegregate Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) public schools has not succeeded. Despite a 1977 State court order to desegregate and the implementation of the Modified School Desegregation Plan, Black and minority group students still encounter discrimination, unfairness, and abuse in Philadelphia schools, and the Plan's promises…

Considers the role of social-science research in school desegregation efforts as a background to this collection of written reports, depositions, and testimony in the March 1996 hearings about whether the St. Louis (Missouri) school district had achieved unitary status, having done all it could to eliminate the wrongs of a racially dual school…

The interim findings of a citizen commission charged with monitoring the implementation of the Chicago (Illinois) Public School desegregation plan are presented. The first of four sections of the report describes the context for the monitoring effort, including legal suits against the school systems in the 1960s and the events and legal decisions…

Demographic trends are developing in Connecticut that show increasing racial segregation and divided educational facilities in contiguous urban and suburban school districts. Racial balance on a statewide basis is not sufficient to counteract the effects of the growth of the state's minority populations, the residential clustering of racial/ethnic…

Analysis of the provisions for Hispanics, Asians, and other minority groups (excluding Blacks) in the desegregation plans of 13 cities (Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Seattle) suggests a number of trends: (1) These groups have not been classified…