Documents Tagged ‘school desegregation’
Berkeley School Desegregation through the Eyes of Carol Sibley
Archive Entry Date: 3/24/2010
A video narrating Berkeley's school desegregation, produced by a friend of a pioneering School Board member
School Desegregation in Berkeley
Archive Entry Date: 8/1977
From the US Commission on Civil Rights, an account and positive appraisal of Berkeley's desegregation efforts
Schools Win Praise While Losing Ground
Archive Entry Date: 9/10/1976
Activists disputed the Civil Rights Commission's initial positive take on the Berkeley schools
Berkeley and Busing—Still Short of Aims
Archive Entry Date: 5/20/1976
Eight years after the buses rolled, a LA Times reporter suggested the project of school desegregation had become ever more complicated
Desegregation’s Results: Berkeley No Longer Has a Siberia
Archive Entry Date: 4/21/1976
The black-oriented Oakland Post offered a positive take on school desegregation in Berkeley
“Desegregation is Failing to Meet Education Goals”
Archive Entry Date: 03/17/1976
The Berkeley Gazette put a strongly negative spin on a superintendent's report on desegregation
Giving Children the Gift of Identity
Archive Entry Date: 12/17/1975
Black children's literature advocates for positive self-esteem, not just reading comprehension.
Berkeley College Prep A Success
Archive Entry Date: 06/18/1975
A different narrative about minority achievement and experimental schools.
“Berkeley’s ‘Under-Educated’ Blacks”
Archive Entry Date: 04/19/1973
Harriet G. Jenkins, assistant schools superintendent, submits a list of recommendations to improve the district's record on minority achievement.
Decision Due on Alternative Schools
Archive Entry Date: 12/10/71
The BUSD fought a federal effort to shut down Black House and Casa de la Raza
Asian Student Retreat
Archive Entry Date: 5/31/71
From Berkeley High's 1971 yearbook, a poem, portraits, and reflections on an Asian Studies retreat
Negro Educator Group Endorses Black House
Archive Entry Date: 3/2/71
The Oakland-based Black Aces articulated the rationale for Berkeley's "Black House"
How School Busing Works in One Town
Archive Entry Date: 9/27/1970
The New York Times Magazine sympathetically appraised Berkeley's desegregation efforts
Performing Arts Group Creates Model School
Archive Entry Date: 12/31/68
Berkeley's first experimental public school: a new "Community High" that would build relationships between students and locals
Berkeley’s School Integration Program Proceeds Smoothly
Archive Entry Date: 9/2/1968
On the advent of the new busing program, the LA Times found cause for optimism
On The Way
Archive Entry Date: 8/31/1968
On the eve of the buses rolling, the school district laid out how it and the larger community had prepared
Black Studies formed at Berkeley High
Archive Entry Date: 6/30/1968
Berkeley High established the first Black Studies program in the Bay Area
Negro History Taught at All School Levels
Archive Entry Date: 5/15/68
A full desegregation effort meant desegregating the curriculum too
Berkeley ’68
Archive Entry Date: 03/31/1968
Five months before the buses would roll, the BUSD explained how school desegregation would work
Board Adopts New Program on Hiring of Negro Teachers
Archive Entry Date: 1/3/68
School desegregation in Berkeley meant programmatic efforts to hire more black teachers
$349,870 Approved by State For ’68 ESEA School Program Here
Archive Entry Date: 12/16/1967
Federal funds were channeled to programs for Berkeley's poorer children
MLK’s Foreword to Neil Sullivan’s Now Is the Time
Archive Entry Date: 9/1/1967
Frustrated by the slow progress of desegregation, MLK found hope in Berkeley's school system