| 单词 | busing |
| 释义 | busingor bus·sing[ buhs-ing ] / ˈbʌs ɪŋ / nounthe transporting of students by bus to schools outside their neighborhoods, especially as a means of achieving socioeconomic or racial diversity among students in a public school. Origin of busing1885–90; bus1 (v.) + -ing1, spelled irregular with single s, perhaps to avoid association with buss Words nearby busingbusiness reply, business suit, business unionism, businesswoman, businessy, busing, busk, busker, buskin, buskined, bus lane Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for busing
Cultural definitions for busingbusing The movement of students from one neighborhood to a school in another neighborhood, usually by bus and usually to break down de facto segregation of public schools. notes for busingA Supreme Court decision in 1971 ruling that busing was an appropriate means of achieving integrated schools (see integration) was received with widespread, sometimes violent, resistance, particularly among whites into whose neighborhoods and schools black children were to be bused. In 1991, the Court ruled that school districts could end busing if they had done everything “practicable” to eliminate the traces of past discrimination. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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