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Peer reviewedUseem, Elizabeth – Integrated Education, 1972
Reports the results of a study of the attitudes towards busing of white secondary school students in suburban Boston, who participate in the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity busing program. (JM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, School Desegregation, Secondary School Students
Peer reviewedPettigrew, Thomas F.; And Others – Integrated Education, 1972
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)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Program Evaluation
Download full textChin, Laura, Ed. – 1976
This report reviews the first year of integration, under the implementation of the Six-District Plan, of the elementary schools in Springfield, Massachusetts. Through this plan the school department changed the racial composition in five previously imbalanced elementary schools and integrated the elementary school system. Redistricting, the…
Descriptors: Black Education, Bus Transportation, Citizen Role, Community Role
Pettigrew, Thomas F.; And Others – Public Interest, 1973
David Armor's "The Evidence on Busing" presented a distorted and incomplete review of this politically charged topic. We respect Armor's right to publish his views against "mandatory busing." But we challenge his claim that these views are supported by scientific evidence. A full discussion of our reading of the relevant…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods
Armor, David J. – Public Interest, 1973
Thomas Pettigrew and his associates have missed the essential point of my study. The essential requirement for sound reasoning on this matter is observance of the distinction among the findings of science, the results of policy, and the dictates of law or morality. I studied the results of existing policies of induced school integration (all of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects
Teele, James E. – 1973
Early one morning, September 8, 1965, Operation Exodus unfolded. Poor black parents, with much community support, initiated a school busing program whereby several hundred black children of all ages between five and 14 were to be bused from nearly all-black schools in the black community to predominantly or all-white schools in surrounding…
Descriptors: Black Community, Bus Transportation, Community Involvement, Desegregation Effects
Wachtel, Betsy; Powers, Brian – 1979
This volume attempts to document ways in which several communities have dealt with the problems of declining school enrollments. Each case study outlines some type of public participation in the task of adjusting to population changes and fiscal pressures. The first chapter supplies an introductory overview of issues related to declining…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Bus Transportation, Case Studies, Citizen Participation
