This report discusses a survey which explored the contradictory opinions of millions of Americans who support integration, but often resist one means to desegregation, busing. According to the report, two thirds of the people in this survey who say they support integration are also generally opposed to busing. The survey was designed to learn the…

This article is a general overview of desegregation. Discussion first centers on the weakening of desegregation by federal housing programs, school board policies and opportunistic politicians, and then proceeds to the relationship of desegregation and poverty. (Author)

Presents some findings from an analysis of contemporary literature which picked out indications of the progress that busing for racial integration has made toward improving the quality of public education. (Author/WM)

A rebuttal of a negative evaluation of busing programs published by David Armor, which focuses on the methodological shortcomings of an investigation of a voluntary busing program in metropolitan Boston called METCO done by Armor. (JM)

Illustrates the extent to which an insensitive administrative policy can disrupt the educational process and inhibit the development of viable learning situations with the case of an experimental social studies class observed during the first half of the school year 1969-70. (Author/JM)

A description of the process and outcomes of the integration of two high schools in St. Petersburg, Florida, by a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, which granted permission to reprint his series of three articles. (JM)

Reports observations and conversations with teachers, parents, students and others involved in Boston's Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunities (METCO) busing program. (DM)

Among the issues discussed in this round table discussion are the following: bussing, the conflicts between labor and bussing, and the bussing crisis in Boston. (AM)

This issue is said to raise many questions about the capacity of the federal courts to resolve major social problems. What happens in Boston is said to be important because it is a salvageable city in that it has not yet "tipped" with blacks making up only about 17 percent of city population and less than 40 percent public school…

This study is an attempt to discover what happens to students' attitudes as a result of experience in desegregated schools. In particular, the students studied were involved in a special busing program called Operation Hospitality, which was carried out by the Chicago Catholic School Board. Through this program, black grade school students from…

Cheshire, Connecticut, is currently conducting a longitudinal study of the effectiveness of Project Concern, in which children from the urban ghettos of New Haven are transported daily by bus to area suburban towns. The subjects in this study are 25 minority group children who are presently enrolled in the Cheshire schools for the second year. The…

That so much of the task of desegregation still lies ahead, coupled with the realization that desegregation has not fulfilled expectations, suggests it is time for a reconsideration of the assumptions influencing the present approaches. (Author/AM)

The King School in Dorchester, Massachusetts has come from being an educational basket case to succeeding in the remarkable feat of attracting and holding a city-wide population of students. (Author/AM)

Among the myths that are discussed are the effects of desegregation/integration on violence, finances, achievement, self confidence, quality education, neighborhood schools, and white flight. (Author/AM)

The purposes of this study were to assess the effects on academic achievement of (1) student busing status, (2) student ethnicity, and (3) the interaction between ethnicity and busing status. (Author/AM)