Argues that any policy of voluntary busing should, to bring population stability as well as equal rights, encompass the metropolitan area as a whole, removing the suburbs from their protected status. (Author/JM)

Concludes that school desegregation has such an incredible ideological momentum that objective and rational assessment of its true effects often seems unattainable. Until there is solid evidence that educational and social benefits of desegregation outweigh its harmful effects, it should not be imposed upon an unwilling public. (Author/JM)

Coleman's message has been misunderstood, it is argued, because the scholar has been engaging in a perilous exercise that is not uncommon among social scientists. He has been mixing rhetoric and research in many recent pronouncements, and few people know which is which. The scientist and advocate hats must be clearly labeled. (Author/JM)