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The Bus Kids: Children's Experiences with Voluntary Desegregationreviewed by Robin L. Leavitt - June 12, 2009 Title: The Bus Kids: Children's Experiences with Voluntary Desegregation Author(s): Ira W. Lit Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven ISBN: 0300105797, Pages: 224, Year: 2009 Search for book at Amazon.com When I was young, I walked to school, sometimes accompanied by my older sister or brother. It was almost a straight line from my home to the school, and the only reason the journey may have taken longer that 20 minutes was because I would day dream and meander along the way. The walk was how I transitioned to and from school each day. That taken-for-granted daily journey seems a suburban idyll of long ago, but not lost completely to all of todays children and families. My current home in a midsize midwest community is adjacent to a local elementary school and everyday I see middle and working class parents and their children walk together to and from their neighborhood school.
Such journeys are not the experience of the bus kids those children whose stories Ira Lit tells in his text. In a clear ethnographic voice, Lit describes the experiences... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Robin Leavitt
Illinois Wesleyan University E-mail Author ROBIN LEAVITT is a professor of Educational Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses in school desegregation, social justice education, child study, and teacher research. Her publications include qualitative studies of children’s lived emotional experience in early childhood programs. She is co-coordinator of the Promise and Potential partnership which matches tutor-mentors with struggling middle school students.
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