Segregation in education

Overview Charles Glenn (1938-) is an educator, writer, and former Massachusetts state official focusing on pedagogy, educational policy, and diversity in education. These papers document the administrative efforts behind racial integration, school choice, and equity in education in Massachusetts from 1963 through the 1990s. The collection demonstrates efforts to desegregate schools and provide equal opportunity in education, and the evolution of equitable educational policy over the late 20th century...

Overview Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity, Incorporated (METCO, Inc.) is a private nonprofit organization founded in 1966 to eliminate racial imbalance by busing children from Boston and Springfield to suburban public schools in 38 suburban communities. The program was created more than three decades ago by educational collaborators, parents, and suburban citizens from metropolitan Boston and Boston's suburbs as a voluntary desegregation program. Its mission is "to provide, through...