wgbh_tdcr_004 004 tdcr wgbh yes Bus to the Burbs Busing for school integration--Massachusetts--Boston Students--Massachusetts--Boston Boston (Mass.)--Race relations Minorities--Education De facto school segregation--Massachusetts--Boston Discrimination in education--Massachusetts--Boston Plaza (Television Program) Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunity (Boston, Mass.) Social integration--Massachusetts--Boston Instructional Web page recommended for grades six through twelve featuring an excerpt from the 2004 program "La Plaza: Bus to the Burbs." Ten years after the Supreme Court ruled that segregated schools were unconstitutional, the vast majority of American schools remained segregated. In Boston, a group of black parents began busing their children to better schools in predominantly white neighborhoods. The Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunities (METCO) busing program remains a strategy for integration today. This video segment from La Plaza: Bus to the Burbs takes a closer look at the METCO program. Includes a background essay, discussion questions, and alignments to teaching standards. Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute. Collection funded by: Opensource. Grade range: 6-12. Lesson plans in Teachers Domain using this resource: Re-Examining Brown; Strategies for an Equal Education. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation La Plaza (WGBH) Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection WGBH Educational Foundation 2002/2008 Instructional materials Teaching guides Resource units Moving images Historical works (Nonfiction) http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/osi04/soc/ush/civil/burbs/index.html text/html video/quicktime 11.4 Mb ca. 8m 15s Forms part of: Teacher's Domain Civil Right Special Collection. Forms part of: La Plaza (WGBH Television Series). A PDF viewer may be needed to view the newsletter. 1966/2004 Boston (Mass.) Suffolk County (Mass.) The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. 20090526 204905