During the period 1954 to 1976, the public's perception and ultimate reaction to busing went from mild disfavor to vehement rejection. An analysis of the information which seemed to cause this revealed that four factors seemed to be involved: the neighborhood school concept and its validity; the educational benefit to be derived from the program;…

This paper reviews the neighborhood school concept, an idea which has been discussed and debated in America for 200 years. According to the paper, historically, the neighborhood school has lost its position as a viable means of carrying out the necessary educational functions. At the same time, the neighborhood school concept has been used as a…

Historical overview considers the role of transportation in education before 1954, when school busing was used to improve education by consolidating rural schools and centralize effort in urban schools, and after the 1954 Supreme Court decision that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal. Different attitudes toward forced busing are…