Reforming Boston schools, 1930 to the present
Subtitle: overcoming corruption and racial segregation
By: Joseph Marr Cronin
Series: Palgrave studies in urban education
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230111455
Subjects: Educational equalization; School integration; EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General; Discrimination in education; EDUCATION / History; Educational change; Schools; Urban Education; Education; African Americans; Case studies
Description: "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"--
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Reforming Boston schools, 1930-2006. 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Leave, Speak Up, or Stay; title: Boston Schools: The Height of Loyalty and Ethnic Exits (1920-40); title: Boston Teachers Express Their Voices (1920-65); title: School Reform Postponed (1940-62); title: Black Voices for Equal Education, and the White Response (1960-74); title: The Court Orders Reforms (1974-89); title: Universities Speak Up; title: The Organized Teacher Voice (1965-2000); title: Business Calls for Educational Improvements; title: Future Choices, Disparate Voices.