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Cambridge University graduates founded both the Boston Latin School and Harvard College in the 1630s. One might assume local universities kept up an intense commitment to Boston’s public schools for the next 370 years. After all, colleges and universities admit their high school seniors and prepare teachers for city schools. In fact, all but two universities lost interest in Boston schools during the 1930s and, for a generation, the Boston system turned inward, ignoring all but Boston College and Boston State Teachers College.
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James B. Conant, My Several Lives (New York, 1970), 385.
Interview with Theodore R. Sizer, November 2002, and Adam Nelson, The Elusive Ideal; Equal Educational Opportunity and the Federal Role in Boston Public Schools, 1950–1985 (Chicago, 2005).
Joseph M. Cronin and Richard M. Hailer, Organizing an Urban School System for Diversity (Lexington, MA, 1973), 3–11, survey by Jeffrey Raffel, later director of the University of Delaware public policy program. The MACE released the report on October 1970.
Larry Brown, The Way We Go To School, Task Force on Out of School Youth, Boston, 1970.
Northeastern University, The Boston Public Schools: An Assessment of Governance, Operations and Finance, July 1991. President John A. Curry and Chief Financial Officer Robert Culver were key participants, with faculty.
Larry Cuban, To Make a Difference (New York, 1970), 242–245.
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Cronin, J.M. (2008). Universities Speak Up. In: Reforming Boston Schools, 1930 to the Present. Palgrave Studies in Urban Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611092_7
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