Scholars who agree on a list of conclusions from past integration studies disagree on three central issues: (1) the size of the positive educational impact of desegregation; (2) the psychological effects of desegregation; and, (3) what the proper governmental response to the existing evidence about busing should be. (JM)

Reports the results of a national survey conducted for the Commission on Civil Rights, which found that the public does not know much about the school busing to which it is supposedly so vehemently opposed, and that that lack of knowledge affects where it stands on the issue. (Author/JM)