American Democracy and the Promise of Justice

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.03.09

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Demographics
  2. Rationale
  3. It Was Never Meant to Be Equal
  4. Boston and Busing
  5. Creating Roadblocks To Opportunity
  6. Busing is Just Another Word for Desegregation
  7. Two Worlds Apart
  8. We Know Better but Will We Do Better?
  9. Standards
  10. Activities
  11. Footnotes
  12. Bibliography

The Different Shades of the Yellow Bus

Sean Cameron Means

Published September 2019

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Footnotes

  1. “Report to the Community.” A Plus Schools. Accessed July 16, 2019. http://www.aplusschools.org/wp-content/uploads/ASchools_ReportToTheCommunity_2018.pdf
  2. “Report to the Community”
  3. “Report to the Community”
  4. “Report to the Community”
  5. “Report to the Community”
  6. “Report to the Community”
  7. Means, Sean. “The American Dream: Members Only.” Yale National Initiative. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_18.01.04_u.
  8. Behrman, Elizabeth. “Pittsburgh Public Schools developing reconfiguration plan for students at University Prep.” Pittsburgh Post Gazette (Pittsburgh), May 15, 2019. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.post-gazette.com/news/education/2019/05/15/Pittsburgh-Public-Schools-Milliones-Uprep-Arsenal-reconfiguration/stories/201905150131.
  9. “Report of the Community”
  10. Shipp, E.R. “1619 in America: 400 years ago, Africans arrived in Virginia.” USA Today (McLean), Feb. 8, 2019. Accessed July 16 2019. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/02/08/1619-african-arrival-virginia/2740468002/.
  11. “Emancipation Proclamation (1863).” Our Documents. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?doc=34.
  12. Caliver, Ambrose. "Segregation in American Education: An Overview." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 304 (1956): 17-25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1032103.
  13. Caliver, “Segregation in American Education: An Overview.”
  14. Caliver, “Segregation in American Education: An Overview.”
  15. Green, Paul. "The Paradox of the Promised Unfulfilled: Brown v. Board of Education and the Continued Pursuit of Excellence in Education." The Journal of Negro Education 73, no. 3 (2004): 268-84. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4129611.
  16. Jacobs, Gregory S. Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools. (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1998), 88.
  17. Formisano, Ronald P. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004), 120.
  18. Formisano, Boston Against Busing, 130.
  19. Formisano, Boston Against Busing, 131.
  20. Formisano, Boston Against Busing, 129.
  21. Formisano, Boston Against Busing, 153.
  22. Formisano, Boston Against Busing, 159.
  23. Jacobs, Getting Around Brown, 89.
  24. Jacobs, Getting Around Brown, 92.
  25. Delmont, Matthew F. Why Busing Failed. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016), 122.
  26. Delmont, Why Busing Failed, 122.
  27. Delmont, Why Busing Failed, 124.
  28. “Milliken v. Bradley.” JRank. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://law.jrank.org/pages/24834/Milliken-v-Bradley-Significance.html
  29. “Milliken v. Bradley.”
  30. “Milliken v. Bradley.”
  31. “Milliken v. Bradley.”
  32. Paz, Isabella Grullon. “Kamala Harris and Joe Biden Clash on Race and Busing.” The New York Times (New York), June 27, 2019. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/us/politics/kamala-harris-joe-biden-busing.html?partner=applenews&ad-keywords=APPLEMOBILE&region=written_through&asset_id=100000006600138&uri=nyt://article/f174f657-128f-5a97-8853-0a8af6221d9f
  33. “2019 Best School Districts in America.” Niche. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.niche.com/k12/search/best-school-districts.
  34. “2019 Best School Districts in America.”
  35. “2019 Best School Districts in America.”
  36. “2019 Best School Districts in America.”
  37. “Mt. Lebanon School District: Safewalking” MTLSD. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.mtlsd.org/page.cfm?p=557.
  38. “Mt Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh, PA.” US News. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/pennsylvania/districts/mt-lebanon-sd/mt-lebanon-high-school-17115.
  39. “Mt Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh, PA.”
  40. “Mt Lebanon High School in Pittsburgh, PA.”
  41. “Report to the Community.”
  42. Theoharis, George. “‘Forced busing’ didn’t fail. Desegregation is the best way to improve our schools.” Washington Post (Washington D.C.), October 23, 2015, Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/10/23/forced-busing-didnt-fail-desegregation-is-the-best-way-to-improve-our-schools/?utm_term=.ec108fddb377
  43. Theoharis, “‘Forced busing’ didn’t fail.”
  44. Glass, Ira. July 11, 2015. “562: The Problem We All Live With.” This American Life. NPR. July 11, 2015. Accessed July 16, 2019. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/562/transcript/
  45. Glass, “The Problem We All Live With.”
  46. Glass, “The Problem We All Live With.”
  47. Glass, “The Problem We All Live With.”
  48. Glass, “The Problem We All Live With.”
  49. Means, John and Jackie J. Interview by Sean Means. Telephone Interview. New Haven, July 19, 2019.
  50. Interview by Sean Means.
  51. Interview by Sean Means.
  52. Interview by Sean Means.
  53. Interview by Sean Means.
  54. Interview by Sean Means.
  55. Interview by Sean Means.
  56. Interview by Sean Means.
  57. Interview by Sean Means.
  58. Interview by Sean Means.

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