The distance to school, commute time, student safety, and the cost and availability of transportation are all critical elements that determine the degree of real "choice" present in any school system, and more information is needed regarding family experiences, preferences, and challenges related to school transportation across school…

There are a number of recent US news media reports of children and youth with autism becoming lost, injured, or even dying while taking public school transportation, yet research on this problem is scarce. This ethnographic study examines the experiences of 14 parents whose children with autism take public school transportation in Los Angeles…

In consideration of the many challenges associated with Qatar's continued growth and demographic changes, the government of Qatar is interested in updating its school transportation system (STS). This volume assesses the perspectives of parents and school administrators on Qatar's STS, identifies a vision and goals for the STS, reviews…

The conventional explanation for adult white opposition to busing for school desegregation emphasizes a rational, objective self interested component. Whites are seen as opposing busing because its costs far exceed its benefits. However, little of the social psychological literature supports this view. Studies by and large support the findings…

This bulletin gives some of the results of an attitude survey on school desegregation in Riverside and Redlands, California. Children and parents were questioned. The results indicate that parents and students in Riverside reacted very positively to three years of integrated education. Anglo parents felt that their children were not having more…

This article analyzes some of the arguments against busing and advocates that busing be implemented even though it has significant limitations as a vehicle for desegregation. (DM)

A majority of parents whose children attended segregated schools in a court-ordered integrated school system felt that mixed schools offer better educational opportunities than do segregated schools. (Author)

Findings from the ninth annual Gallup Poll of the public's attitudes toward the public schools are exerpted. (JD)

Account of the progress and problems relative to the desegregation of a South Texas school district. (DM)

Notes that the strong and persistent under current of opposition to bussing among parents in the Pontiac schools creates a barrier to meaningful integration of the schools, even though it does not interfere with desegregation. (Author/AM)

Charlotte, N.C. is in the midst of a third year of extensive busing, and the results are difficult to assess. (DM)

In a factory city that responded explosively to bused integration, author finds the system working and the children happy." (Editor)

To determine the effects of busing, this study compared 1971/72 enrollments in the public schools in Kalamazoo and Pontiac, Michigan with enrollment size and trends between 1966 and 1970. (Author/SF)