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[quote=Anonymous]To claim busing students won't hurt the students from high SEC schools is simply a lie. It has been studied and has been confirmed again and again that it requires some sacrifices of the richer party.

Searching "Does Segregation Still Matter? The impact of student Composition on Academic achievement in High school", you will find the well regarded and highly cited study by Russell Rumberger and Palardy. If you have no patience to read through the paper as it's scientific and data driven which can be boring to a lot of people, go directly to figure 4 on  page 21, which titles "Estimated achievement growth during 4 years of high school for disadvantaged, average and advantaged White and Black students in low-, middle-, and high-SES high schools".

What it says is that you place a student in higher-SES schools, regardless his/her race or academic performance level or family SEC status, he/she will do better than if he is in lower-SES schools, vice versa. What it means is that if you mix low-SES with high-SES school students to make the school middle-SES, the kids who are from the low-SES schools will do better and those who are from the high-SES schools will do worse than they were.

This gives a valid argument that busing would reduce the achievement gap. Ideally, the families from high-SES schools will comply for the noble goal of equality, but in reality it's hard to sell.

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