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Public Education in Detroit
Devotes a few paragraphs (p.86, 99-100, 11) to the "colored school;" notes 20-year service of one teacher, John Whitbeck.
A Study of In-School Learning Experiences as Contributing Factors in School Dropout.
Finds dropouts in two central city schools to have inadequate counseling, restricted vocational choices, poor self-images and feelings of rejection by teachers.
Afro-American Instructional Curriculum Laboratory.
Lists useful books, films and filmstrips, posters, portraits, records, artifacts and recent lesson plans for African history unit. Acknowledges help of several Detroiters, among them Mrs. Margaret Ashworth, Mrs. Catherine Blackwell, and Mrs. Jessie…
Report on the Flint Youth Survey, a Resource Book of Selected Findings, Conducted by the Inter-Center Program of Research on Children, Youth and Family Life. Sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health
Some questions asked both children and their parents in this three-year study concerned "Effects of Child's Being Colored at School."
4 Years on the Job in Michigan.
Reviews regulatory, education and community services, research activities.
The Detroit High School Leaver Project, Final Report [by] the Michigan Employment Security Commission, and the Detroit Board of Education, in cooperation with U.S. Bureau of Employment Security.
Detailed study of dropouts in a predominantly black population.
A Report on the Treatment of Minorities in American History Textbooks.
"Concludes that social studies textbooks in use in Michigan schools are very seriously deficient in their treatment of minorities in general and Negroes in particular."
Report on the Characteristics of Michigan's Non-White Population
Covers residential and occupational distribution, housing, educational and income characteristics.