1. It is certainly encouraging that parents, not government, are choosing to expand the number of integrated schools in the Province. 2. The proposal to change to a controlled integrated school has to be supported by three-quarters of the parents. 3. We believe that pupils of integrated schools will have more tolerant attitudes. 4. As Eaton shows, however, the balance of influences can shift for students in integrated schools, where white peers help reinforce standard language. 5. As a consequence, a growing number of African Americans have decided that quality schools in local communities are more important than achieving racially integrated schools. 6. A light-skinned black woman from a middle-class background, she was raised in Harlem but educated in private integrated schools. 7. Busing plans, he said in an interview, often end up with black children attending segregated classrooms within integrated schools. 8. But her personal position is still in support of integrated schools. 9. But meeting the goals of an integrated school system is a major problem for many urban districts, and a still unresolved societal question. 10. Comer grew up in East Chicago, Ind., in an integrated neighborhood with integrated schools. |