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This project report examines strategies for effective school desegregation based on case studies of individual schools, national school surveys, ethnographic studies of classrooms, trend analyses, opinion surveys and conference interviews, and court documents. The strategies identified in the report include the attainment of one or more of the following possible outcomes of desegregation: (1) ending racial isolation among schools and within schools; (2) avoiding resegregation among schools and within schools; (3) improved race relations among students; (4) improvements in academic achievement; and (5) public support for desegregation and school policy. Discussions of pupil reassignment policies, community involvement, and plans for desegregating neighborhoods and housing are related to the findings of the study. Also addressed is the need for structural and curricular changes in schools and more effective inservice training for teachers and administrators. (JCD)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert