She is the author of The Children In Room E4: American Education on Trial, which chronicles a landmark civil rights case and life in a classroom and neighborhood in Hartford, Connecticut and The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line, a qualitative interview study of the adult lives of African Americans who had participated in
a voluntary school desegregation effort in suburban Boston.
Not exact matches
The report also indicates that controlled choice — a type of
voluntary desegregation that allows parents some choice about which
schools their children will attend — and other
desegregation efforts benefit minority students.
But it seems clear that passage of the measure, which appears on the state's Nov. 5 ballot as Proposition 209, would raise questions about a host of programs that public K - 12
schools and colleges offer — from
voluntary desegregation efforts to certain tutoring and outreach programs.