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1 Schools Can Be Desegregated 1 (1967)

handle is hein.civil/usccth0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SCHOOLS CAN BE DESEGREGATED For the first time in the history of Amer- ican education, school desegregation is a mat- ter of urgent concern in communities throughout the Nation. While some com- munities are still enmeshed in controversy over the issue, other communities are devel- oping plans in an effort to desegregate their schools and improve the quality of education for all children. This pamphlet identifies some of the ele- ments of successful desegregation and ex- plains some of the techniques communities have used or are planning to use to desegre- gate their schools. The information in this pamphlet is based on a major study of Racial Isolation in the Public Schools which the Commission did at the request of President Johnson. The re- port was issued in February 1967. In its study, the Commission found that remedies are available which will desegregate schools and provide a better education for all American children. The major findings of fact which emerged from the study are: * Racial isolation in the public schools is intense and is growing worse. * Negro children suffer serious harm when they are educated in racially segregated schools, whatever the origin of that segre- gation. They do not achieve as well as other children; their aspirations are more restricted than those of other children; and they do not have as much confidence that they can influence their own futures. * White children educated in all-white schools also are harmed and frequently are ill-prepared to live in a world of people from diverse social, economic, and cultural backgrounds. * Compensatory efforts to improve education for children within racially and socially isolated schools have not been markedly successful. * School desegregation remedies have been devised which will improve the quality of education for all children.

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