Letter from Lado to Court RE: Response to Requests for Information

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AND EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. New York, N.Y. 10013-2897 (212) 219-1900 Fax: (212) 226-7592 

September 16, 1992 

John R. Whalen, Esq. 

Assistant Attorney General 

office of the Attorney General 

State of Connecticut 
MacKenzie Hall 
110 Sherman Street 
Hartford, CT 06105 

Re: Sheff v. O'Neill 

Dear John: 

This letter and its attachments are in response to requests 

for information made by you during the August 25, 1992 deposition 

of William T. Trent. 

1. William Trent made contributions to three works that 

appear in Willis Hawley’s fifteen volume set, Assessment of Current 

Knowledge About the Effectiveness of School Desegregation Strategies, Center for 

Education and Human Development Policy, Institute for Policy 

Studies, Vanderbilt University, April 1981. The citations for 

the three works follow: 

(1) "Resegregation: Segregation Within Desegregated 

Schools," Chapter 4, with J. Eyler, V. Cook, R. Tompkins, 

and L. Ward, in A Review of the Empirical Research on Desegregation: 

Community Response, Race Relations, Academic Achievement and 

Resegregation, pp. 210-329; 

(ii) "Review of the ‘Consensus’ Literature: Summarizing 

the Perspectives of Desegregation Experts and 

Practitioners," Chapter 2, in A Review of Qualitative Literature 

and Expert Opinion on School Desegregation, Vol. VI, pp. 61-77; and 

(iii) "Expert Opinion on School Desegregation Issues: 

Findings from the Interviews," Chapter 3 in A Review of 

Qualitative Literature and Expert Opinion on School Desegregation, Vol. 

Vi, pp. 78=132. 

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2. Attached please find copies of two additional unpublished 

studies: 

(i) "The Sense of Well-Being and Opportunity of 

America’s Youth: Some Sources of Race and Sex 

Differences in Early Adolescence," Center for Social 

Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University; and 

(ii) "Race Comparisons of Student Course Enrollments and 

Extracurricular Memberships in Segregated and 

Desegregated High Schools," with J. McPartland, Center 

for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins 

University. 

Sincerely, 

oy 
Marianne Engelman Lado 

cc. Ron Ellis, Esq. 
Phil Tegeler, Esq. 
Sandra DelValle