This comprehensive review of school desegregation discusses the roots of the problem and provides a perspective for the future. (AM)

Suggests that evaluations of compensatory education programs must take into account the goals of the programs, amount and concentration of funding, obstacles surmounted in their implementation, length of affective and cognitive results, and avoid the cost/benefit approach to human beings. (Author/AM)

Critically reviews the current combined writing of Moynihan, Glazer, Herrnstein, Armor, Banfield, Jensen and others, discussing historical perspectives on inequality, the idea of equality, access to schooling as a means toward equality, unequal economic opportunity, and misrepresentations of the adequacies of the Black family. (JM)

Discusses demographic trends among Blacks in relation to their educational and economic needs. (GC)

Uses a timeline approach, beginning with the arrival of blacks in America, to explain geographic location of blacks within the city, housing patterns, economic and social conditions, and how all of these affected educational arrangements for blacks in urban America. (Author/JM)

Briefly reviews literature on the economic and social benefits of educating Blacks and the heavy costs of non- education. (GC)