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Much of the intellectual impetus for busing came from the 1966 report by University of Chicago Sociologist James S. Coleman, which demonstrated statistically that black students learn more in integrated classrooms. (A major tenet of the Coleman report, often overlooked, is that poor children learn more when they go to...
Early this summer Coleman incurred the censure of many academics−who charged that he used suspect statistics−when, after a new study of racial data in U.S. public schools, he announced that at least in major cities, "busing has not worked" as a means of desegregation. His reason...
Last week Coleman carried his white-flight argument one step further. In an antibusing affidavit filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals on behalf of the Boston Home and School Association, he said that court-ordered busing in Boston caused a 12% increase in the number of white children leaving...
Whether busing works to raise black pupils' test scores or drive whites out of town, a growing number of blacks and whites believe that the emphasis should now be on improving the schools. Says Wilson Riles, California's black superintendent of public instruction: "For 20 years we have...
Thomas Atkins, president of Boston's N.A.A.C.P., and many others who support busing agree. Many blacks and whites now believe that merely moving pupils from one school to another is not enough of an answer−particularly if the schools to which students are bused are not significantly better...