Dr. David Armor introduced his paper on "busing" of pupils as busing became the political battleground of American race relations. The paper includes brief descriptions of studies of school desegregation programs in the states of Connecticut, New York, Michigan, and California, together with a more extensive coverage of his own research on a…

The contents of this anthology of essays on school desegregation focus on such topics as racial balance and quality education, school desegregation as a synonym for racial equality, failure of academic research to be useful, James S. Coleman's desegregation research and policy recommendations, busing plans and how they work, white against white in…