Racial Segregation in the Public Schools

Metropolitan school desegregation: Impact on racial integration of neighborhoods in the United States

“…Yet the head of HEW's Office for Civil Rights has stated that "Today, 25 years after Brown, millions of children attend northern school systems as unconstitutionally segregated as those ordered dismantled in 1954" (Richards, 1979). Farley and Taeuber (1974) have documented that in Northern cities where there has been a strong tradition of neighborhood schools, the level of school segregation was consistent with the level of residential segregation.…”

School Desegregation

“…6. To accommodate work and vacation schedules we had to conduct some of the local interviews as late as May, 1974. 7. We computed another index formulated by Farley and Taeuber (1974: 893-898) known as the index of replacement.…”

White Attitudes Toward Busing

“…In the recent past we have heard so much concerning the merits and demerits of busing as an instrument for effecting school desegregation and, as a corollary, equity in education, yet a number of the more fundamental factors underlying the white public's reaction against busing remain clouded by the popular discourse such as the one revolving around Coleman's &dquo;white flight&dquo; thesis (Coleman et al, 1975;Rossell, 1975Rossell, -1976Pettigrew and Green, 1976;Farley, 1976;Orfield, 1976). An earlier study by Kelley (1974) had attempted to go beyond the popular debate by examining first of all the connection between antibusing attitudes and racism as measured by social distance items, and, secondly, the correlates of each attitudinal domain.…”