Why Busing Failed

Why Busing Failed

Author: Matthew F. Delmont

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2016-03

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0520284259

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"Busing, in which students were transported by school buses to achieve court-ordered or voluntary school desegregation, became one of the nation's most controversial civil rights issues in the decades after Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Examining battles over school desegregation in cities like Boston, Chicago, New York, and Pontiac, [this book posits that] school officials, politicians, courts, and the news media valued the desires of white parents more than the rights of black students, and how antibusing parents and politicians borrowed media strategies from the civil rights movement to thwart busing for school desegregation"--Provided by publisher.


Children's Active Transportation

Children's Active Transportation

Author: Richard Larouche

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2018-06-15

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0128119322

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Children's Active Transportation is a rigorous and comprehensive examination of the current research and interventions on active transportation for children and youth. As the travel behaviors of these groups tend to be highly routinized, and their mobility faces unique constraints, such as parental restrictions, mandatory school attendance, and the inability to drive a motor vehicle before late adolescence, this book examines the key factors that influence travel behavior among children and youth, providing key insights into lessons learned from current interventions. Readers will find a resource that clearly demonstrates how critical it is for children to develop strong, active transportation habits that carry into adulthood. - Discusses the correlates that exist between children's active transportation using a social and ecological model - Summarizes active transportation interventions that show what works to increase non-motorized modes of travel in children - Describes the factors that influence the implementation and effectiveness of interventions


Busing of Schoolchildren

Busing of Schoolchildren

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Getting Around Brown

Getting Around Brown

Author: Gregory S. Jacobs

Publisher: Ohio State University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0814207200

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Getting Around Brown is both the first history of school desegregation in Columbus, Ohio, and the first case study to explore the interplay of desegregation, business, and urban development in America.


Children of the Dream

Children of the Dream

Author: Rucker C. Johnson

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 2019-04-16

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1541672690

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An acclaimed economist reveals that school integration efforts in the 1970s and 1980s were overwhelmingly successful -- and argues that we must renew our commitment to integration for the sake of all Americans We are frequently told that school integration was a social experiment doomed from the start. But as Rucker C. Johnson demonstrates in Children of the Dream, it was, in fact, a spectacular achievement. Drawing on longitudinal studies going back to the 1960s, he shows that students who attended integrated and well-funded schools were more successful in life than those who did not -- and this held true for children of all races. Yet as a society we have given up on integration. Since the high point of integration in 1988, we have regressed and segregation again prevails. Contending that integrated, well-funded schools are the primary engine of social mobility, Children of the Dream offers a radical new take on social policy. It is essential reading in our divided times.


Tanya Takes the School Bus

Tanya Takes the School Bus

Author: Martha Elizabeth Hillman Rustad

Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)

Published: 2017-08

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 1512439398

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Tanya gets to ride the bust to school this year! She meets her bus driver and learns how to be safe around the school bus. She waits with her dad at the bust stop, and she even gets to sit by a friend on the bus! Find out what esle happens on the way to school.


Remember

Remember

Author: Toni Morrison

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 9780618397402

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The Pulitzer Prize winner presents a treasure chest of archival photographs that depict the historical events surrounding school desegregation.


Busing Brewster

Busing Brewster

Author: Richard Michelson

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 037583334X

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Bused across town to a school in a white neigborhood of Boston in 1974, a young African American boy named Brewster describes his first day in first grade. Includes historical notes on the court-ordered busing.


Children of the Storm

Children of the Storm

Author: Ariana Harner

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing

Published: 2024-07-16

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1682754766

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The story of twenty schoolchildren on the southeastern plains of Colorado, fighting for lives that had just begun...Imagine being one of twenty children, ages seven to fourteen, stranded in a makeshift school bus for thirty-three hours, during the worst blizzard to hit Colorado in over fifty years. The gripping narrative of CHILDREN OF THE STORM leads you through this haunting experience.The morning of March 26, 1931, began with sixty-degree weather and students excitedly running to board Carl Miller's bus for their routine ride to the Pleasant Hill School. By the time they arrived at the pair of forlorn one-room schoolhouses, it was dark, windy, and cold— obvious signs of a spring snowstorm. Soon after, following the teachers' orders to drive the children to a nearby home for safety, Miller lost his sense of direction in the ensuing whiteout and lodged the bus in a ditch. When rescuers found the survivors a day and a half later, the blizzard had taken its deadly toll.