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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Looking to the Future 1 ERICA FRANKENBERG AND ELIZABETH DEBRAY Part I Where Have We Been and Where Are We Now? Standing at a Crossroads: The Future of Integrated Public Schooling in America 13 JOHN CHARLES BOGER School Choice as a Civil Right: The Political Construction of a Claim and Its Implications for School Desegregation 32 JANELLE SCOTT Integration after Parents Involved: What Does Research Suggest about Available Options? 53 ERICA FRANKENBERG Advancing the Integration Agenda under the Obama Administration and Beyond 75 CHINH Q. LE Part II The Case for Integration School Racial and Ethnic Composition and Young Children’s Cognitive Development: Isolating Family, Neighborhood, and School Influences 91 DOUGLAS D. READY AND MEGAN R. SILANDER Southern Graduates of School Desegregation: A Double Consciousness of Resegregation yet Hope 114 AMY STUART WELLS, JACQUELYN DURAN, AND TERRENDA WHITE Legally Viable Desegregation Strategies: The Case of Connecticut 131 CASEY D. COBB, ROBERT BIFULCO, AND COURTNEY BELL Regional Coalitions and Educational Policy: Lessons from the Nebraska Learning Community Agreement 151 JENNIFER JELLISON HOLME, SARAH L. DIEM, AND KATHERINE CUMINGS MANSFIELD Part III Student Assignment Policy Choices and Evidence Socioeconomic School Integration: Preliminary Lessons from More Than 80 Districts 167 RICHARD D. KAHLENBERG The Effects of Socioeconomic School Integration Policies on Racial School Desegregation 187 SEAN F. REARDON AND LORI RHODES Is Class Working? Socioeconomic Student Assignment Plans in Wake County, North Carolina, and Cambridge, Massachusetts 208 GENEVIEVE SIEGEL-HAWLEY Using Geography to Further Racial Integration 223 SHENEKA WILLIAMS AND ERICA FRANKENBERG Magnet Schools, MSAP, and New Opportunities to Promote Diversity 232 CLAIRE SMREKAR AND ELLEN GOLDRING Part IV The Pursuit of School-Level Equity Resource Allocation Post–Parents Involved 243 ERIC A. HOUCK Improving Teaching and Learning in Integrated Schools 255 WILLIS D. HAWLEY AND JACQUELINE JORDAN IRVINE Latinos, Language, and Segregation: Options for a More Integrated Future 265 PATRICIA GÁNDARA Part V Integrated Means toward Integrated Ends: Broadening Social Policies Federal Legislation to Promote Metropolitan Approaches to Educational and Housing Opportunity 281 ELIZABETH DEBRAY AND ERICA FRANKENBERG Linking Housing and School Integration to Growth Management 302 MYRON ORFIELD Conclusion: Returning to First Principles 314 GARY ORFIELD Contributors 327 Index 331 ...

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