Reforming Boston schools, 1930 to the present
overcoming corruption and racial segregation
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2011 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, NY, New York (State)
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English
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- ISBN-139780230111455
- ISBN-100230111459
- Library of Congress Control Number2011017643
- Open LibraryOL25149477M
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- DDC379.2/60973
- LCCLA306.B7 C76 2011
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"Boston's schools in 2006 won the Eli Broad Prize for the Most Improved Urban School System in America. But from the 1930s into the 1970s the city schools succumbed to scandals including the sale of jobs and racial segregation. This book describes the black voices before and after court decisions and the struggles of Boston teachers before and after collective bargaining. The contributions of universities, corporations and political leaders to restore academic achievement are evaluated by one who observed Boston schools for forty years"--
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- Palgrave studies in urban education
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