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The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line

by Susan E. Eaton

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Brandeis University Press
  • 14.4 x 21.9 x 2 cm

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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.
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Sacred And The ProfaneThe Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line

  • Author

    Susan E. Eaton

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Brandeis University Press

  • Published

    October 2020

  • Weight

    296g

  • Dimensions

    14.4 x 21.9 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781684580293

  • ISBN-10

    1684580293

  • Eden Code

    5217401

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