When the Fences Come Down: Twenty-First-Century Lessons from Metropolitan School Desegregation

How we provide equal educational opportunity to an increasingly diverse, highly urbanized student population is one of the central concerns facing our nation. As Genevieve Siegel-Hawley argues in this thought-provoking book, within our metropolitan areas we are currently allowing a labyrinthine system of school-district boundaries to divide students — and opportunities — along racial and economic lines. Rather than confronting these realities, though, most contemporary educational policies ...