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...Leach article (Indiana Law Review, Vol. 6, 1973) was used by Mr. Ferrara to support his statement that, "...busing did not improve the academic achievement of black children." This statement is a clear distortion of the facts presented in the article, and a misuse of social science research. In fact, the findings of the ten studies cited in the article are overwhelmingly positive in support of advantages to bused blacks over their peers left in segregated schools...
...Indiana Law Review, vol. 6, 1973. Jeffrey J. Leach reviews the latest evidence on the educational effects of busing. One pro-busing argument is that exposing black and minority students to "middle class culture" creates an environment more conducive to intellectual development. Black student attendance at a predominantly black and lower-class school is supposed to lower self-esteem and confidence and cause inferiority feelings. But their attendance at a predominantly white middle-class school is supposed to improve academic performance and have positive psychological effects...
FLASH GORDON: THE PLANET MONGO by Alex Raymond. Vol. I. PRINCE VALIANT by Harold Foster. Vol. I. Nostalgia Press. Both unpaged. $12.95 each...
...evokes an idyllic time before mass communications and technology. Vol taire and Diderot could keep abreast by keeping in touch with each other and with a few other members of the elite. The vast majority of the people could get the word, eventually and in some manner, from the local tavern keeper or cure. Anyway they did not need to know very much, the Harris the sis seems to suggest, being somehow mystically in touch with nature and eternity. Perhaps Harris' real target is uni versal literacy...
...GULAG ARCHIPELAGO Vol. I Translated by THOMAS P. WHITNEY 660 pages. Harper & Row. $12.50. (Paperbound...