Sara Mead summarizes and comments on recent debates about the feasibility of socioeconomic busing. Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation and Andrew Rotherham of Bellwether Education Partners largely agree on the premise that poor kids should be bused to middle class schools. But Rotherham believes that busing is “impractical as a large-scale reform measure.”

…if you were wondering, they don’t talk about Wake County.