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The Other Boston Busing Story What`s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line Susan E. Eaton

The Other Boston Busing Story  What`s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line By Susan E. Eaton

The Other Boston Busing Story What`s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line by Susan E. Eaton


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The Other Boston Busing Story What`s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line by Susan E. Eaton

METCO, Americas longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, buses black children from Bostons 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.

The Other Boston Busing Story What`s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line Reviews

General readers who are seriously interested in race relations or education reform will want to read this book. * Publishers Weekly *

About Susan E. Eaton

Susan E. Eaton is professor of practice in social policy and director of the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis Universitys Heller School. She is the author, most recently, of the book, Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees and America at Its Best.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Other Boston Busing Story
2. Why They Went
3. What Remains in Memory
4. The Gains
5. The Resolutions
6. What About Now
7. City Life and Suburban Schools
Bibliography
Index

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GOR013590300
9781684580293
1684580293
The Other Boston Busing Story What`s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line by Susan E. Eaton
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Brandeis University Press
2020-10-23
272
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