Hope and Despair in the American City

Grant originated from Syracuse, New York. He had his high school education in that city. He later worked for the Washington Post in writing articles about education, then got into a PhD program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which he completed, and began working for Syracuse University as a professor. ==Contents==

The use of Syracuse as the counterexample is done to show how de facto educational segregation is prevalent in the northern United States. ==Reception==

Arum concluded that the book is "a compelling historical account." Arum argued that the author should have put more focus on student tracking done in Wake County; the author asserted that standards were maintained in classes for students on lower levels of tracking. ==See also==