Conflicting Questions: Why Historians and Policymakers Miscommunicate on Urban Education.

History and policy, while often connected, also frequently clash with one another, especially in urban spaces. This chapter outlines three types of conflicting questions posed by historians and policymakers on the topic of urban education. The first, conflicting orientations on past, present and future, explores the most basic differences in thought between historians and policy makers. The second, conflicting purposes of historical interpretation, considers the different contexts shape conceptualization and use of history. The third, conflicting views on historical understanding versus policy action, focusing on the fundamental differences in the roles of these two groups. This chapter draws on examples from historical research and policy discussions in Hartford, Connecticut while also reflecting on the writings of other scholars

City-Suburban Desegregation and Forced Choices: A Review Essay of Susan Eaton\u27s The Other Boston Busing Story

This review essay critically evaluates Susan Eaton\u27s The Other Boston Busing Story, an interview-based study of African American alumni from Boston\u27s METCO voluntary city-to-suburb school desegregation program in the 1970s through the 1990s. The reviewers praise Eaton\u27s richly-textured representations of METCO alumni experiences, but they question whether the evidence supports her major policy claim that nearly all alumni would repeat the program if given the opportunity. Based on the reviewers\u27 parallel study of Hartford\u27s Project Concern alumni, the essay calls attention to forced choices faced by many African Americans in these city-suburban programs, and discusses the broader implications for contemporary policy debate on school desegregation and the vouchers movement

Addendum to the Synoptic Review of Red Algal Genera

An addendum to Schneider and Wynne\u27s A synoptic review of the classification of red algal genera a half century after Kylin\u27s “Die Gattungen der Rhodophyceen” (2007) Bot. Mar. 50:197–249) is presented, with an updating of names of new taxa at the generic level and higher. In the last few years, the names of several new orders and families of red algae have been validated; these are cited and referenced below

The Trinity College Handbook, 1986-87

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The Trinity College Handbook, 1969-70

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A Cold War Narrative: The Covert Coup of Mohammad Mossadegh, Role of the U.S. Press and Its Haunting Legacies

In 1953 the British and United States overthrew the democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh in what was the first covert coup d’état of the Cold War. Headlines and stories perfectly echoed the CIA and administration’s cover story – a successful people’s revolution against a prime minister dangerously sympathetic to communism. This storyline is drastically dissimilar to the realities of the clandestine operation. American mainstream media wrongly represented the proceedings through Iran strictly Cold War terms rather than placing it in it rightful context as a product of the Anglo-Iranian oil nationalization crisis. In relying on narrow Cold War ideologies, the press disguised the true nature of the events and kept the American public blind to the realities. Furthermore, a complacent and silent press allowed the overthrow of the nationalist Prime Minister – one of Iran’s most democratic leaders – to go unchallenged in public spheres of deliberation and enabled its tragic consequences to go concealed and unexamined

The Trinity Review, Spring 1972

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