Further Study on Values of Black and White Children

American children have been transported to school at public expense in the familiar yellow buses for several decades. Yet, busing has become a divisive educational issue today. Beginning with the Brown decision in 1954, the United States Supreme Court has consistently ruled that de jure segregation imposed by official action is inconsistent with the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of equal protection under the laws. Such Supreme Court decisions have resulted in massive busing of white and black pupils beyond neighborhood schools to achieve racial integration. They have also produced furious protests by parents in northern as well as in southern cities. In short, busing has become an American dilemma! Opponents of busing often cite the pioneering work of the former Johns Hopkins sociologist James Coleman,1 who pointed out that such devices as smaller classes, newer books, or more sophisticated facilities made little impact on the work of black children. Other critics also cite the so-called fundamental difference of culturally deprived children from normal children. Kaplan discussed this point of view in Phi Delta Kappan: The term culturally deprived is now viewed with some disfavor by certain sociologists and educators, more accurate terms they submit are culturally different or economically deprived. They maintain that children from impoverished families are not culturally deprived in the sense that they are

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• The Relationship of Black Value-Orientations to Racial Identity Attitudes

  Robert T Carter, Janet E Helms•Measurement and Evaluation in…•1987

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