One Nation

Empowering people in the struggle to create and sustain racially, culturally, economically and linguistically integrated schools and communities

I want to learn more about interdistrict integration programs…

Reports and Research

METCO Merits More by Susan Eaton and Gina Chirichigno (2011)
Boundary Crossing for Diversity, Equity and Achievement: Inter-district School Desegregation and Educational Opportunity by Amy Stuart Wells (2009) provides a comprehensive overview of the nation’s existing interdistrict programs.
Crossing the Line and Closing the Gap: Interdistrict Magnet Schools as Remedies for Segregation, Concentrated Poverty and Inequality by Anita Wadhwa (2009)
Using Regional Coalitions to Address Socioeconomic Isolation: A Case Study of the Omaha Metropolitan Agreement by Jennifer Jellison Holme, Sarah Diem and Katherine Cumings Mansfield (2009)
Evaluation of Connecticut’s Interdistrict Magnet Schools by Casey D. Cobb, Robert Bifulco and Courtney Bell (2009)

Magazine and News Articles

No Superman in Suburbia by Amy Stuart Wells (2011, The Huffington Post)
The Pull of Magnets by Susan Eaton (2010, The Nation)
A Stolen Education by Susan Eaton (2009, The Nation)

One Nation Indivisible Stories

Integration Ambassadors: A Grassroots Organization of Parents and Educators in Greater Hartford, Connecticut, Keeps Racial and Economic Diversity in Schools and on Agendas by Susan Eaton (2013)
Upstream People: Can Nebraska Show a Separate, Unequal Nation a Better Way? by Susan Eaton (2012)

Books

Both Sides Now The Story of School Desegregation’s Graduates by Amy Stuart Wells (2009)
The Children in Room E4: American Education on Trial by Susan Eaton (2007)
The Other Boston Busing Story: What’s Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line by Susan Eaton (2001)
Stepping over the Color Line: African-American Students in White Suburban Schools by Amy Stuart Wells and Robert Crain (1999)

Conferences and Events

Passing the Torch: The Past, Present, and Future of Interdistrict School Desegregation (January 16-18, 2009, Cambridge MA)
Supporting Regional Efforts to Reduce Segregation & Inequality in Public Education (October 22-23, 2012, Omaha, NE)