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Mrs. Doris Phillips, who is black, sends her son and daughter to the same school. She regrets that busing means that her kids and their schoolmates cannot play together after school, but thinks that it is "the best solution" available now for desegregation. "So many neighborhoods in this city are...
The key question now worrying Northern white parents is: What are the results of busing? The answer is not totally comforting. A study of 700 high schools conducted last year by the Syracuse University Research Corporation showed that classroom disruption was "positively related" to integration especially in schools with a...
(7 of 10) slogans were painted on the walls of one building, and police confiscated pistols, hunting knives, and clubs crudely fashioned from pool cues with nails stuck in the end. Last year Harrisburg, Pa., undertook a citywide busing program involving 5,000 children. "I thought the purpose of busing...
While the social results of busing may be uncertain, the academic ones ?at least for black students?are not. Choosing his words with scholarly care Massachusetts Education Commissioner Neil Sullivan contends: "The weight of available evidence gives credence to the hypothesis that students from minority groups or from a...
(8 of 10) busing for improving minority education? The only one that has been seriously proposed is "compensatory education" ?spending disproportionate amounts on ghetto schools in hopes of making them "separate but better." But there is sad evidence that the mere application of money and manpower to such programs...