> If the Coleman report was so influential, why aren't protestors demanding busing? Quoting from the jh.edu link I gave: > As a work of sociology, the Coleman

> If the Coleman report was so influential, why aren't protestors demanding busing? Quoting from the jh.edu link I gave: > As a work of sociology, the Coleman Report was full of subtleties and caveats, but the mass media and makers of policy focused on one prediction--that black children who attended integrated schools would have higher test scores if a majority of their classmates were white. > That last point is key because in 1975 Coleman concluded in a new study that busing had failed, largely because it had prompted "white flight." As white families fled to suburban schools, the report concluded, the opportunity for achieving racial balance evaporated. > Political support for busing quickly waned. Many civil rights leaders, educators, policy-makers, and sociologists who had embraced Coleman's earlier findings now were outraged.They blasted him for abandoning his earlier commitment to desegregation. Some members of the American Sociological Association even moved to have him expelled, albeit unsuccessfully. (Coleman was elected president in 1991.) > His supporters called him a true scientist who changed his opinion when empirical evidence required him to do so. You also wrote "..for some reason, education seems to favor a model..." It seems you have switched from sociology to education policy. Eduction policy in modern US is driven by politics much more than it is driven by science. You refer to Econ101, so I'll counter with Parkinson's law of triviality, a.k.a. 'dog shedding'. Everyone who makes education policy went to school, and many think that gives them insight into how education work.