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...heart of the school busing controversy is a basic question: Does integration provide better education? Until recently the answer-officially, atleast-was yes. There have always been skeptics, however, and last week a gloomy new study raised serious doubts. Harvard Sociologist David J. Armor, reporting on surveys of busing results in six Northern cities, said that four of the five major premises of current school integration policy "failed to be supported by the data." Among Armor's chief conclusions...
...fifth premise, however, Armor found "strong evidence that middle-class suburban prep schools have an important 'channeling' effect not found in black schools . . . that black students attending such schools may have doors opened for them that are closed to students attending predominantly black schools...
...Armor was quick to acknowledge the limitations of his work. "It is difficult," he wrote, "to make comparisons and generalizations when data are derived from different studies." Armor drew on his own study of Metco, a voluntary busing program involving Boston and 28 suburbs, plus independent reports over varying time spans on integration programs in Ann Arbor, Riverside, Hartford, New Haven, and White Plains, N.Y. Armor conceded that his own Metco study might have been based on groups of students who "are not truly representative of the full population of bused students and their matched siblings." Metco Chief Robert Hayden...
Senate finally pass the $18.5 billion higher-education bill-including an amendment to postpone any court-ordered busing for racial "balance" until Jan. 1, 1974, or until appeals have been exhausted-the Armor report was bound to stir controversy. At the very least, it strengthened antibusing forces in the House, where prospects for the bill are cloudy. It was Armor himself, however, who pointed out that "just because the current policy model is inaccurate, this does not mean that there are no other justifications for integration . . . If blacks and whites are ever to live in an integrated culture, they must...
...election year, Armor's confessed support of integration aside, politicians are likely to make much of Armor's paper to support anti-busing and pro-segregation stands...