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No Way. Nixon's moratorium, however, would not permit even that, for the real issue is not busing but white fears of integration. As a last resort, the Nixon policy would permit the courts to order busing, but only for children above the sixth grade and only as a...
Actually, applying the Nixon alternatives would often require some increase in the number of children bused to school. Attendance lines have been redrawn annually in Manhattan, for example, but because the white public school population borough-wide is so low, next year all but one of its eight academic high...
Without busing, the only real solution is neighborhood integration, which would take years to accomplish even if it were to be adopted as an all-out national goal-and that is unlikely. Since Johns Hopkins Sociologist James Coleman's celebrated study in 1966, all research has suggested that a...
A bewildering array of studies of these Johnson-era programs has failed to prove that compensatory education is the answer to poor schooling. Rand Corp. researchers found that for every study identifying a school program that worked, another equally good study concluded that the same educational practice was ineffective. Nixon...
Weak Evidence. Even the evidence used by Administration officials to back Nixon up was contradictory. HEW Secretary Elliot Richardson cited a report that low-income children read better after going through special programs in 42 California schools. But the study's author, Indiana University Economist Herbert Kiesling, retorts that...