This is an interview with Carl Candoli, School Superintendent of the Lansing, Michigan, School System, and one of the chief authors of the Cluster Plan for desegregation, which emphasized busing. (Author/AM)

Notes that white flight is not universal: it depends upon the city as context. (Author)

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)

Desegregation, particularly court ordered busing, has been viewed independently of the complex historic and economic factors in which these policies are rooted. By focusing on the educational aspects of a social or political change the importance of various other factors which operate outside the school but which influence school programs and…

This paper cites some of the contributions that sociology has made to desegregation policy. The major contribution, made by public opinion research, is establishing the level of support or opposition to busing policy. A second contribution to desegregation policy has been made by those sociologists and social psychologists who have studied the…

A variety of reasons for why court-ordered desegregation and bussing did not trigger massive white flight from the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system are given. (Author/AM)

Reviews findings of recent studies of school segregation and tests the idea that school integration is a major cause of white flight from the nation's largest cities. The potential of busing and other techniques for integration is discussed. (Author/AM)

Suggests that given the fact that there is no way to prevent further expansion of the ghettos, spreading school and housing segregation are virtually inevitable in the absence of a powerful policy to alter the normal self-fulfilling prophecies of neighborhood transition. (Author/AM)

This report provides figures for seven states of the cost of student transportation following desegregation. (Author/AM)

Discusses the busing controversy, the increasing demand for community control of schools, and the general discontent with the public school system through an analysis of school desegregation in Chicago. (Author)

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)