Apropros my column today on the importance of educational quality over skin-color diversity, there is an interesting survey in the current issue of American Enterprise. When asked to rank the relative priorities of “raising academic standards and achievement” versus “achieving more diversity and integration,” white parents favored the former over the latter by 87 to 6 percent (and black parents voted 82 to 8 percent the same way). Likewise, 78 percent of Americans (including 58 percent of nonwhites) say, “Letting students go to the local school in their community is better even if it means that most of the students would be of the same race,” with only 19 percent (36 percent of nonwhites) saying, “Transferring students to other schools to create more integration is better, even if it means that some students would have to travel out of their communities to go to school.”