Politics, Race, and Schools

Watras, Joseph. Politics, Race, and Schools: Racial Integration, 1954-1994.  New York; Garland Publishing, 1997. This sounds worse than intended, but I would not recommend Politics, Race, and Schools to the casual reader.  It is not a beach read.  The storyline covering desegregation and integration in Dayton public and private schools in the 1960s and 70s, [...]

Caught in the Middle

Longworth, Richard C. Caught in the Middle: America’s Heartland in the Age of Globalism.  New York; Bloomsbury, 2008. Over the years, there have been many studies and books attempting to regionalize the United States.  In general, Ohio is usually lumped into the Midwest or sometimes the Great Lakes region.  This is traditionally the result of [...]

Getting Around Brown

Jacobs, Gregory S.  Getting Around Brown: Desegregation, Development, and the Columbus Public Schools.  Columbus, Ohio; Ohio State University Press, 1998. As another school year approaches, I thought I would look at a education-related title. Desegregation (and its aftermath) of Ohio’s large municipalities has not been one of the state’s prouder moments.  From the late sixties [...]