The Courts, Social Science, and School Desegregation

5th Cir ability grouping academic achievement aff'd assignment attend black children black schools black students Board of Educ Brown busing cent Civil Rights classroom Coleman constitutional County Bd County School decision Delta County desegre desegregation plan Detroit district court elementary school equal educational opportunity equal protection clause factors federal courts Fifth Circuit fourteenth amendment grade harm high school interracial issue Jefferson County Judge judicial jure segregation Justice Keyes litigation Milliken minority students Montgomery County Bd neighborhood opinion pattern plaintiffs population problem public schools pupils race racial composition racial segregation residential segregation result school authorities School Bd school board school desegregation School Dist school district school integration school system segregated schools self-esteem social science social science evidence social science research studies Supp supra note Supreme Court Swann teachers test scores tion violation white flight white schools white students