Teachers College Record Publishes Essay by Jack Dougherty and Dana Banks
'03
The Teachers College Record has published a review essay
co-authored by Trinity Assistant Professor of Educational Studies Jack
Dougherty and Trinity graduate Dana Banks '03. The review essay, “City-Suburban
Desegregation and Forced Choices: A Review Essay of Susan Eaton's The
Other Boston Busing Story,”
critically evaluates Eaton's work in relation to a parallel study of
alumni of Hartford's Project Concern. A Mellon Foundation grant to
Trinity for metropolitan Hartford social science research funded Banks
and Dougherty’s presentation of their research at the Oral History
Association in Baltimore last month.
The Other Boston Busing Story is an interview-based study of African
American alumni from Boston's METCO voluntary city-to-suburb school
desegregation program in the 1970s through the 1990s. Dougherty and
Banks praise Eaton's richly-textured representations of METCO alumni
experiences, but they question whether the evidence supports her major
policy claim that nearly all alumni would repeat the program if given
the opportunity. Based on the reviewers' parallel study of Hartford's
Project Concern alumni, the essay calls attention to "forced choices"
faced by many African Americans in these city-suburban programs, and
discusses the broader implications for contemporary policy debate on
school desegregation and the vouchers movement.
The review essay currently appears on-line and will be in print early
next year. You can access it at:
http://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=11225
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