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In what sense?  [b]If the outcomes are the same for the kids as they were in the home schools, that's no benefit.[/b]  If the kids associate socially with their own neighborhood friends anyway, that's not socioeconomic integration.  It's the same as the magnet schools.  There's social stratification anyway.  If you want socioeconomic integration, it has to be done at the housing level.  Busing just doesn't accomplish that. [/quote]

But they aren't.

Yes, there needs to be socioeconomic integration at the housing level. But that doesn't preclude busing as another solution.[/quote]

It appears that they actually are.  The research on this is, as i said mixed, but most show no real effects.  [/quote]

I know of no research that shows that it's just as good for poor kids to go to high-poverty schools. Do you?[/quote]

I know of research that shows that outcomes for kids from high-poverty schools bused to lower-poverty schools show minimal to no impact.  It's one of those things we are tempted to do because the motivation is good, and we don't know what else to do.  The real issues: poverty in the home environment and lack of family support/resources, are a lot harder to address than simply putting a bunch of kids on buses and telling ourselves at least we're doing something.  But we really aren't.  Meanwhile ,you're using those llimited resources for busing instead of directing them toward productive uses.  [/quote]

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