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Posey-Maddox, Linn – Educational Forum, 2016
This article builds a case for nuanced conceptualizations of "urban" and "-suburban" educational contexts and issues. The author analyzes data across two studies--one of upper-middle-class White parents with children in Chicago public schools, and the other of Black low-income and working-class parents who moved from Chicago to…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Urban Education, Discourse Analysis, Context Effect
Montano, Esta W. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Since 1966, the Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (METCO) has operated in suburban communities in Massachusetts as a voluntary desegregation program. In interviews, nine white educators revealed their perspectives of the METCO program in their district and discussed their beliefs about the ways that race and whiteness intersected…
Descriptors: Voluntary Desegregation, School Desegregation, Whites, Suburbs