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Boston Schools: The Height of Loyalty and Ethnic Exits (1920–40)

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Reforming Boston Schools, 1930 to the Present

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The Boston Latin School from 1635 on was the flagship of the academic fleet, the ultimate public preparatory school sending graduates mainly to Harvard College for a century. The schools taught only young Puritan boys until the 1680s, then adding white Protestant males of other denominations.1 Boston schools for the first 200 years declined to enroll women, blacks, or Catholics. Public school policies of exclusion or inferior treatment often elicited cries of protest (voice) along with a quest for alternatives (exit or “choice”).

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Cronin, J.M. (2008). Boston Schools: The Height of Loyalty and Ethnic Exits (1920–40). In: Reforming Boston Schools, 1930 to the Present. Palgrave Studies in Urban Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230611092_2

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