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Overcoming Corruption and Racial Segregation in Boston Schools
April 16, 2008
Joseph Cronin writer
Thomas Payzant Boston Public Schools
Robert Peterkin instructor, HGSE
Robert Schwartz professor, Harvard Grad School of Ed

Educators recount the history, the setbacks, and the successful approaches that improved the educational opportunities for Boston school children.

The Boston Public Schools, 30 years after busing violence, won the 2006 Broad Prize for Urban Education for the nation's most improved urban school system. Highly regarded in the 1920's, Boston schools fell into a slough of corruption and ethnic and racial animosity from the 1930's through the 1960's. Collective bargaining, university advocacy, and corporate activism spurred significant reforms. This panel explains how the Boston Public School system rebounded from these setbacks.

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