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[quote=Anonymous][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.     
Here is a quote from another Rumberger paper:
"recognize that schools alone  cannot be the sole area for the improvement of student performance.  Existing research provides substantial evidence that [u]most of the 
differences in students’ achievement[/u] are due to differences in their families and communities, not the schools they attend.  Therefore, to improve student outcomes and address the achievement gap will require addressing the pervasive inequalities found in family and community resources"  (underlined added by me)

Here is an article you might find interesting titled "Schools alone cannot close Achievement gap":
http://issues.org/29-3/beatty/

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It would indeed be a hard sell if you are telling families in high performing schools that their children will do worse if this happens.  It might be better to look for an approach that lifts all boats instead of hurting one group in order to help another.  [/quote]

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