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Nicoletti, John A.; Patterson, Tom W. – Psychological Reports, 1974
A study of attitudes toward enforced school busing shows that supporters of busing emphasize the provision of equal educational opportunities and improved communication among ethnic groups while the opposition emphasizes the disruption of the neighborhood school concept as the basis for their attitudes. (Author/KM)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Bus Transportation, Integration Studies, Racial Integration

Durham, Joseph T. – Journal of Negro Education, 1973
Beginning with the Brown vs. Topeka'' case of 1954 and continuing to the Equal Educational Opportunity bill of 1972, the author traces a series of court cases, laws, pronouncements and research studies concerning educational opportunity and the implications of the busing concept for desegregation and integration. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods
Banks, Ronald; DiPasquale, Mary Ellen – 1970
This study surveyed the effects of bussing nearly 1,200 blacks in the Buffalo (N. Y.) Public Schools from segregated inner city schools to schools where the population was primarily white. The blacks, in grades 5-7, were bussed from 6 inner city schools to 22 receiving schools. Findings include the following: (1) blacks integrated into classes…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Educational Opportunities
Bolner, James; Shanley, Robert – 1974
Chapter one examines the constitutional context of the busing issue and focuses on the way courts have dealt with the problem. Attention is divided between the United States Supreme Court's rulings and the work of the lower courts. When courts have required busing for desegregation there has almost inevitably been considerable public opposition.…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Free Choice Transfer Programs
Herron, William P. – 1975
The Philadelphia experience very strongly indicates that at least in Philadelphia, and very probably in most large cities in the northeastern U.S., several factors--notably the geographic separation of the races within the city and the existence of a sizable non-public school system (Usually (Usually parochial)--preclude the effective…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Litigation, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
Pettigrew, Thomas F. – 1973
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…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Desegregation Plans
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
Hunterton, C. Stanley; And Others – 1972
The contents of this document are organized in six sections. Section one, "Overview," discusses the parameters of the busing controversy. It indicates that the basic issue in the busing debate is racial desegregation in our nation's schools. Section two, "Busing in Perspective," examines the history, scope, and cost of busing; the law and busing;…
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Educational Policy
Kellner, Norman J. – 1970
This study examines results of integration programs in cities relatively similar in size and ethnic composition to San Diego. Pertinent case studies, conflicting experimental research findings, and group attitudes reflected in opinion polls are described and evaluated. A summary of the major conclusions and an annotated bibliography complete the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Bus Transportation, Case Studies, Compensatory Education
Freedom House Inst. on Schools and Education, Roxbury, MA. – 1975
The initial black community response to the desegregation plan submitted by the School Department is contained in this document. The principal purpose is to make clear to the court that in evaluating this plan, or any other, improvements in the quality of schooling is sought. Efforts to rid the Boston schools of discriminatory pupil placement are…
Descriptors: Black Attitudes, Black Education, Black Influences, Black Leadership
Felice, Lawrence G. – 1975
This study evaluates the effects of busing on the subsequent achievement performance of bused black students. Differences in achievement gains or losses are hypothesized as being both a function of bused students attitudes toward busing and desegregation and of the interracial climate of acceptance in the receiving schools. Findings from data…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Black Attitudes, Bus Transportation