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Last week in an Opinion Page article entitled "Busing: the Best Available Means," Brian Bohn charged that in my article, entitled "The Failure of Busing" (April 28) I incorrectly used a study by Jeffrey J. Leach in the Indians Law Review. In my article I stated, citing Leach's study...
Willie called busing a "fake issue" that was being pushed by political leaders and community groups. Since 30,000 students were being bused in the Boston area before Judge Garrity ordered busing, he said, transportation in a major urban area is not an important issue.
The Leach article (Indiana Law Review, Vol. 6, 1973) was used by Mr. Ferrara to support his statement that, "...busing did not improve the academic achievement of black children." This statement is a clear distortion of the facts presented in the article, and a misuse of social science research. In...
In referring to the journal article, Mr. Ferrara neglected to mention any of the findings which compare the gains of bused blacks to control groups of blacks left in segregated schools. On this point, I found that five of the ten studies (Berkeley, Buffalo, Connecticut, Rochester and Sacramento) found significant...
If Mr. Ferrara had criticized the manner in which busing is often implemented or the quality of educational options for Boston parents, black and white, there would be no disagreement. The implementation, planning and assessment of Judge Garrity's decisions have not been without fault, and in some aspects each...