Abigail Thernstrom, adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and Richard Kahlenberg, senior fellow at the Century Foundation, present different views about the value of busing public school students to achieve socio-economic diversity. Thernstrom and Kahlenberg offered these comments during a March 22, 2011, debate about Wake County’s student assignment policy. The John Locke Foundation and Campbell University Law School Federalist Society co-sponsored the debate. To watch full-length presentations of John Locke Foundation events, click here.
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