Family & Community Students & Families
METCO

Selected Research and Resource Links

• Harvard University Gazette summary of 1997 study done by METCO Inc. and underwritten by the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government regarding parental satisfaction with the Metco Program:
  http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/09.25/METCOStudyFinds.html
  To read the full study go to http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/metro/CitySuburbanDeseg.pdf

• Recently released study by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard regarding what the authors believe is a resegregation of school districts and the characteristics and effects of this new segregation. The study is titled Brown at 50: King's Dream or Plessy's Nigtmare:
  http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/reseg04/resegregation04.php

• Paper regarding the impact of segregation in neighborhoods and schools prepared in 2003 by the Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research: Segregation in Neighborhoods and Schools: Impacts on Minority Children in the Boston Region:
  http://mumford1.dyndns.org/cen2000/colorlines/colorline01.htm

• Secretary of Education Rod Paige's 2003 annual 'back to school address' to the National Press Club addressing the importance of the No Child Left Behind Act and highlighting success stories as well as underscoring the importance of alternative school opportunities for students:
  http://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/2003/09/09242003.html

• Study prepared by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard in February, 2000 on housing trends in the Boston metropolitan area and the effect housing has on school integration and segregation:
  http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/metro/housing_boston.php#fullreport

• Reports by the Urban Education Task Force of the Council of Great City Schools on the achievement gap and strategies to confront the issue:
  http://www.cgcs.org/taskforce/achievegap3.html

• Harvard University Gazette summary of 1997 study done by METCO Inc. and underwritten by the Kennedy School's Taubman Center for State and Local Government regarding parental satisfaction with the Metco Program:
  http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/09.25/METCOStudyFinds.html

• Paper underwritten by the Spencer Foundation regarding a Metco-like program in St. Louis that operates as a school choice program:
  http://www.equaleducation.org/Publications/freivogel.pdf