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The Boston Public Schools, after 1935, began to slide into mediocrity, suffering irreparable losses in family loyalty to the schools. The School Committee rejected all proposals for school reform. Anyone who thought Boston schools were terrific before the 1974–75 desegregation court orders must review the Boston school situation during and after World War II. The oldest wooden school buildings became fire hazards. The calcified curriculum and antiquated teacher personnel system resisted any and all suggestions for a thorough overhaul.
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Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier (New York, 1985), 190–211, 293–295.
O’Connor, Building a New Boston: Politics and Urban Renewal 1950–1970 (Boston, 1993), 123.
Howard Bryant, Shutout: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston (New York, 2002).
Herbert Gans, The Urban Villagers (New York, 1962), 13, 163.
Cyril G. Sargent, Boston Schools (Cambridge, 1962), 47. See also his 1953 Harvard report on “Look to the Schoolhouses” (Boston, 1953).
James B. Conant, Slums and Suburbs (New York, 1961).
Tony Hill, “Route 128, the Baby Boomer of Highways Turns 59,” The Boston Globe, April 19, 2001, D 1, 2. See also the U.S. Civil Rights Commission Report Route 128: Boston’s Road to Segregation, 1968.
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Cronin, J.M. (2008). School Reform Postponed (1940–62). In: Reforming Boston Schools, 1930 to the Present. Palgrave Studies in Urban Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611092_4
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