The Other Boston Busing Story: Yale University Press.www.yale.edu See .edu. (networking) edu - ("education") The top-level domain for educational establishments in the USA (and some other countries). E.g. "mit.edu". The UK equivalent is "ac.uk". , $26.96 The Other Boston Busing Story examines Boston's METCO METCO Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity , America's longest-mining desegregation busing Desegregation busing is the practice of remedying past racial discrimination in American public schools by assigning and transporting children to specific schools in an effort to counteract discriminatory school construction and district assignments. program in America. For 34 years, black children from Boston's inner-city neighborhoods have been bused into more affluent, white, suburban schools. The book includes the thoughts of 65 METCO graduates, who talk about their own experiences. Nearly all of the graduates explain why this type of racial integration isn't easy, but that it's worth the effort. |
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