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"""Zones of privilege and privation are carved into the U.S. landscape by  school district and municipal boundaries. Who makes and maintains those lines? Tracy Steffes brings long-needed attention and exacting research to state governments, whose actions and inactions she proves to be a key force in perpetuating racial injustice in the U.S."" -- Ansley T. Erickson, author of Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits “How can we ‘reform’ our schools to improve academic ‘outcomes,’ especially in poor communities? That's the wrong question. We need to look back in time, to the political and economic decisions that rendered our schools—and our cities—so unequal in the first place. Tracy Steffes has produced the first complete, sophisticated history of education and inequality in a modern American metropolis. Along the way, she demonstrates the hollowness of our present-day reformist rhetoric and the need to think in bigger—and more historical—ways. This is history with an edge and a heart, by a sharp and passionate scholar at the very top of her game.” -- Jonathan Zimmerman, author of Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools"

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Tracy L. Steffes is associate professor of education and history at Brown University. She is the author of School, Society, & State: A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890–1940.  

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