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

• 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

• 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