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Of success in the south and then moved on. >> why did we give up, sheryl? >> because its hard and mainly because of federal courts, the supreme court, sent the signal to lower courts it was time to get out of the business of polices school desegregation, and i think a lot of parents were frustrated with forced busing and the tensions around that. meanwhile, there are strategies that are smarter than forced busing. >> i think the conversation has felt like its either force erred busing or nothing...

Busing. its a very political term. most cool kids have ridden busses a long as there have been school buses. only when it became a tool of integration there was a problem. kids ride school buses every day. its clear that no one is really willing to do that anymore so we have to come up with other solutions. >> do you think part of this has to do if -- the thing that was so interesting to me in new york was what you see is in the absence of a plan to desegregate schools, in the absent of policy a...

Committed from a sort of moral perspective, from a democratic perspective, to not having separate but equal schools, right? or separate but unequal as the brown holding makes very clear. but do we know from the research, are there tangible benefits that occur to the kids that are attending segregated schools as opposed to desegregated ones? >> absolutely. theres 40 years of research that show that low income and disadvantaged kids do much better in integrated middle class schools. poor kids in h...