Nathan Glazer

Apr 24, 2024 | educationnext.org | Nathan Glazer |Tim DeRoche |Richard D. Kahlenberg |Matthew Levey

A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregationby Rachel Louise MartinSimon & Schuster, 2023, $30; 362 pages. As reviewed by Matthew LeveyWe know of the nine Black students who bravely enrolled at Little Rock Central High School in the fall of 1957, despite the Arkansas governor’s attempts to bar them.

Nov 29, 2023 | educationnext.org | Nathan Glazer |Tim DeRoche |Richard D. Kahlenberg

The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equalityby R. Shep MelnickThe University of Chicago Press, 2023, $35; 310 pages. As reviewed by Richard D. KahlenbergIn this thoughtful but sometimes fatalistic book, Boston College political scientist R. Shep Melnick chronicles the promise and pitfalls of the federal government’s efforts to desegregate American schools and, in so doing, upend a key component of Jim Crow.