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In an election year, Armor's confessed support of integration aside, politicians are likely to make much of Armor's paper to support anti-busing and pro-segregation stands.
David J. Armor, associate professor of Sociology, made public this week his new study on the effects of busing in five northern school systems. Already the study has provoked controversy.
Based primarily on Armor's evaluation of Boston's voluntary METCO busing program, the study concludes that busing programs have had little effect on academic achievement by blacks, have not increased black students' educational or occupational ambition, have not increased blacks' self esteem and have encouraged separatist ideologies.
Armor says that his study implies that there should be some reconsideration of forced busing programs. Lawyers seeking to stop implementation of a metropolitan school desegregation plan in Detroit flew to Cambridge Thursday to take testimony from Armor for their case.
That paved the way for Frances ("Sissy") Farenthold, 46, a feisty Corpus Christi lawyer and state legislator, to make her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Entering the race just three months before the primary, she finished a surprising second and will face Rancher-Banker Dolph Briscoe, 48, in a...