Word: armors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...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...
Other Harvard sociologists including Thomas F. Pettigrew, professor of Social Psychology, are at work on an article using some of the same data that Armor did which will reach different conclusions...
...Armor was not reappointed by the department of Sociology. He will take a position as a visiting professor at U.C.L.A. for the coming year...
...Armor's decision to publish came after he knew he would not be staying at Harvard next year. Even without Armor we are likely to hear more about his study and its conclusion...