Word: coleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article in the issue of the Harvard Educational Review that goes on sale today says that school desegregation is not self-defeating, thus challenging the conclusions reached by James S. Coleman, professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago...
...article, by Thomas F. Pettigrew '55, professor of Social Psychology and Sociology, and Robert L. Green of Michigan State University, challenges Coleman both on his research methodology and on his alleged overuse of the mass media to influence public policy...
Last April, Coleman delivered a paper to the American Educational Research Association that tied an increase in "white flight" from the nation's central cities to greater racial desegregation in those cities' schools...
...Coleman was also the principal author of a 1966 study which found that black and lower class students performed better in school when integrated with whites and students from higher economic backgrounds. The study has been used as an intellectual foundation for school busing programs...
What many observers saw as a reversal in Coleman's position received extensive media attention and the new findings were seized upon by anti-busing groups as support for their stand...