| And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? |
| Specifically, the ferment expresses disillusionment with the failure of busing either to reverse the drift toward defacto resegregation of urban public schools or to improve the quality of the education those schools provide. |
| Since the late 1970s many school systems have drifted toward de facto resegregation. |
| Many people are now asking, What definition of merit will prevent the resegregation of top-ranked schools in the post-affirmative-action world? |
| A related claim is that school choice will cause resegregation of schools. |
| This continuing racial divergence in education has been set in social concrete by the exhaustion of busing policies and the acceleration of voluntary resegregation. |
