Summary of "City-Suburban Desegregation: Parent and Student Perspectives in Metropolitan Boston," a Report by the Harvard Civil Rights Project.

Orfield, Gary; Arenson, Jennifer; Jackson, Tara; Bohrer, Christine; Gavin, Dawn; Kalejs, Emily

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Publication Date: 1998

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Summary of "City-Suburban Desegregation: Parent and Student Perspectives in Metropolitan Boston," a Report by the Harvard Civil Rights Project.

Orfield, Gary; Arenson, Jennifer; Jackson, Tara; Bohrer, Christine; Gavin, Dawn; Kalejs, Emily

Equity & Excellence in Education, v31 n3 p6-12 Dec 1998

Explores the reasons for the persistence of and intense interest in the United States' oldest large-scale transfer of inner-city students to suburban high schools, that of Boston (Massachusetts). This voluntary desegregation program continues to thrive because it offers educational quality without producing a racial struggle for access to high-achievement schools. (SLD)

Descriptors: Desegregation Methods, High School Students, High Schools, Inner City, Parent Attitudes, School Choice, School Desegregation, Student Attitudes, Suburban Schools, Transfer Students, Urban Schools, Urban Youth, Voluntary Desegregation

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Language: English

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