The Boston Renaissance
Title | The Boston Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Bluestone |
Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | 476 |
Release | 2000-06-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1610440714 |
This volume documents metropolitan Boston's metamorphosis from a casualty of manufacturing decline in the 1970s to a paragon of the high-tech and service industries in the 1990s. The city's rebound has been part of a wider regional renaissance, as new commercial centers have sprung up outside the city limits. A stream of immigrants have flowed into the area, redrawing the map of ethnic relations in the city. While Boston's vaunted mind-based economy rewards the highly educated, many unskilled workers have also found opportunities servicing the city's growing health and education industries. Boston's renaissance remains uneven, and the authors identify a variety of handicaps (low education, unstable employment, single parenthood) that still hold minorities back. Nonetheless this book presents Boston as a hopeful example of how America's older cities can reinvent themselves in the wake of suburbanization and deindustrialization. A Volume in the Multi-City Study of Urban Inequality
Visit to Boston Renaissance Charter School
Title | Visit to Boston Renaissance Charter School PDF eBook |
Author | D'Ann Mazzocca |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Charter schools |
ISBN |
The Boston Renaissance
Title | The Boston Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Bluestone |
Publisher | Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | 488 |
Release | 2000-06-29 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780871541253 |
"Drawing on a large-scale survey of households and employers in the Atlanta region, the authors show how labor market disadvantage, residential segregation, and ingrained racial antipathies reinforce one another to hold back many minority residents. African American workers have done better in Atlanta's booming job market than elsewhere in the country, but they continue to lose ground to white Atlantans.
Overview of Charter Schools
Title | Overview of Charter Schools PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 108 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
Learning from School Choice
Title | Learning from School Choice PDF eBook |
Author | Paul E. Peterson |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | 472 |
Release | 1998-07-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780815791638 |
While educators, parents and policymakers are still debating the pros and cons of school choice, it is now possible to learn from choice experiments in public, private, and charter schools across the country. This book examines the evidence from these early school choice programs and looks at the larger implications of choice and competition in education. Paul Peterson makes a strong case for school choice in central cities, and coeditor Bryan Hassel offers the case for charter schools. John E. Brandl offers his vision of school governance in the next century. The book's other contributors--economists, political scientists, and education specialists--provide case studies of the experience with voucher programs in Indianapolis, San Antonio, Cleveland, and Milwaukee; survey charter schools; analyze public school choice; discuss constitutional issues; and study the effects of private education on democratic values. Contributors include David J. Armor, George Mason University; Chester E. Finn Jr. and Bruno V. Manno, Hudson Institute; Caroline M. Hoxby, Harvard University; Brett M. Peiser, Partnerships in Learning; and Joseph P. Viteritti, New York University.
Struggles for Equal Voice
Title | Struggles for Equal Voice PDF eBook |
Author | Yuya Kiuchi |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2012-10-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 143844480X |
While previous scholarship on African Americans and the media has largely focused on issues such as stereotypes and program content, Struggles for Equal Voice reveals how African Americans have utilized access to cable television production and viewership as a significant step toward achieving empowerment during the post–Civil Rights and Black Power era. In this pioneering study of two metropolitan districts—Boston and Detroit—Yuya Kiuchi paints a rich and fascinating historical account of African Americans working with municipal offices, local politicians, cable service providers, and other interested parties to realize fair African American representation and media ownership. Their success provides a useful lesson of community organizing, image production, education, and grassroots political action that remains relevant and applicable even today.
The Boston Raphael
Title | The Boston Raphael PDF eBook |
Author | Belinda Rathbone |
Publisher | David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | 443 |
Release | 2014-10 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1567925405 |
The riveting story of a museum director caught in a web of local and international intrigue while secretly pursuing a forgotten Renaissance painting-the Boston Raphael. On the eve of its centennial celebrations in 1969, the Boston MFA announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon, an Italian art sleuth began investigating the painting's export from Italy, challenging the museum's ownership. Simultaneously, experts on both sides of the Atlantic lined up to debate its very authenticity. The museums charismatic director, Perry T. Rathbone, faced the most challenging crossroads of his career. The Boston Raphael was a media sensation in its time, but the full story of the forces that converged on the museum and how they intersected with the challenges of the Sixties is now revealed in full detail by the director's daughter.