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METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation
program, buses black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to
predominantly white suburban schools. In contrast to the infamous
violence and rage that greeted forced school busing within the city
in the 1970s, the work of METCO has quietly and calmly promoted
school integration. But how has this program affected the lives of
its graduates? Would they choose to participate if they had it to
do over again? Would they place their own children on the bus to
suburbia? In The Other Boston Busing Story, sixty-five METCO
graduates who are now adults answer those questions and more,
vividly recalling their own stories and assessing the benefits and
hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to
school. As courts and policymakers today are forcing the
abandonment of desegregation, this book offers an accessible and
moving account of a rare program that, despite serious challenges,
provides a practical remedy for the persistent inequalities in
American education. This new edition puts the original findings in
a contemporary context.
Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling
cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging
America's xenophobic impulses by welcoming immigrants and
collaborating with the foreign-born as they become integral members
of their new communities.
With our nation's urban schools growing more segregated every year,
Susan Eaton set out to see whether separate can ever really be
equal. An award-winning journalist, Eaton spent four years at
Simpson-Waverly Elementary School, an all-minority school in
Hartford, Connecticut. Located in the poorest city in the
wealthiest state in the nation, it is a glaring example of the
great racial and economic divide found in almost every major urban
center across the country.
"The Children in Room E4" is the compelling story of one student,
one classroom, and one indomitable teacher, Ms. Luddy. In the midst
of Band-Aid reforms and hotshot superintendents with empty
promises, drug dealers and street gangs, Ms. Luddy's star student,
Jeremy, and his fellow classmates face tremendous challenges both
inside and outside of a school cut off from mainstream America.
Meanwhile, across town, a team of civil rights lawyers fight an
intrepid battle to end the de facto segregation that beleaguers
Jeremy's school and hundreds of others across America.
From inside the classroom and the courtroom, Eaton reveals the
unsettling truths about an education system that leaves millions of
children behind and gives voice to those who strive against
overwhelming odds for a better future.
Desegregation has been one of the only legally enforceable routes
of access and opportunity for millions of school children. Yet even
as the nation celebrated the 40th anniversary of the 1954 Brown v.
Board of Education decision, Gary Orfield, Director of the Harvard
Project on School Desegregation, began to attract national
attention by identifying and documenting the insidious trend toward
the resegregation of our public schools.
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