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BOOKS

Banfield, Susan. The Bakke Case: Quotas in College Admissions. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow, 1998.

Formisano, Ronald P. Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991

Kozol, Jonathon. Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools. New York: New American Library, 1967.

Kozol, Jonathon. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools. Reprint edition. New York: Harper Perennial, 1992.

Sheils, Merrill. "Why Johnny Can't Write." Newsweek (December 8, 1975): 58–65.

Silberman, Charles E. Crisis in the Classroom: The Remaking of American Education. New York: Random House, 1970.

WEB SITES

Affirmative Action History: Bakke and Beyond. http://www.infoplease.com/spot/affirmative1.html (accessed on March 12, 2002).

Education Week: Desegregation. http://www.edweek.org/context/topics/issuespage.cfm?id=27 (accessed on March 12, 2002).

National Center for Education Statistics Home Page. http://nces.ed.gov/ (accessed on March 12, 2002).

Title IX at 25. http://www.aauw.org/1000/title9bd.html (accessed March 12, 2002).

U.S. Department of Education. http://www.ed.gov/index.jsp (accessed on March 12, 2002).

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