Entry:

Orfield, Gary and Thronson, David, “Dismantling Desegregation: Uncertain Gains, Unexpected Costs,” Emory Law Journal, 43 (Summer, 1993), 759ff.


Abstract:

The dismantling of desegregation plans by a school district, a court-sanctioned act granted without the district showing that gaps in educational opportunity have decreased, cannot assure equity in the absence of judicial mechanisms and may exacerbate racial tensions.

GSS Years:

1972, 1991

Other Data Sets:

Boston Globe survey 1992

GSS Codebook Variables referenced by document:

Variable Name

Variable Label

 
 
BUSING

ATTITUDE TOWARD RACIAL BUSING