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I am disappointed that Jack White's column [DIVIDING LINE, July 22] misrepresented my remarks and position on the Connecticut Supreme Court's decision on school desegregation, wrongly claiming I "moved from the combative to constructive." In fact, my position--constructive--has never changed. I said, and I continue to...
The third-party presidential bid of Alabama Governor George Wallace that year awoke the G.O.P. to a powerful new theme: conservative populism. From the time of William Jennings Bryan, the Democrats had been the defenders of the little folks against the power of money that had its natural home in...
Connecticut's Supreme Court broke important new ground last week by ruling that school segregation violates the state's constitution, no matter what caused it. But the shocking thing about the ruling was the knee-jerk reaction of elected officials like Attorney General Richard Blumenthal. "There will be many who...
Still, test scores dropped at the 10 target schools after the end of busing. In 1991 black third-graders in the target schools scored 5 percentage points lower than black third-graders in the remaining integrated elementaries on a battery of tests. Last year black third-graders in the target...
J. Anthony Lukas' book on the Boston busing wars, Common Ground, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986.