The other Boston busing story : what's won and lost across the boundary line /

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"METCO, America's longest-running voluntary school desegregation program, has for 34 years bused black children from Boston's city neighborhoods to predominantly white suburban schools. Sixty-five METCO graduates vividly recall their own stories in this revealing book. Susan E. Eaton...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Eaton, Susan E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Waltham, Massachusetts : Brandeis University Press, [2020]
Edition:Updated new edition.
Subjects:
Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (Boston, Mass.)
Busing for school integration > Massachusetts > Boston > History.
Ramassage scolaire aux fins de déségrégation > Massachusetts > Boston > Histoire.
Busing for school integration
Race relations
Boston (Mass.) > Race relations.
Massachusetts > Boston
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Other Boston Busing Story
  • 2. Why They Went
  • 3. What Remains in Memory
  • 4. The Gains: What Black Adults Say They Gained from Attending White Suburban Schools and How They Used What They Got
  • 5. The Resolutions: The Costs and Confusion of Suburban Schooling and Making Up for What Was Lost
  • 6. What About Now? Balancing the Gains, the Losses, and the Realities of American Society
  • 7. City Life and Suburban Schools: What We Learn from the Grown-up Children Who Crossed Boston's Race Boundary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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