Five miles away, a world apart: one city, two schools, and the story of educational opportunity in modern America

Introduction: Freeman and Tee-Jay

Past: School desegregation and middle America. Buying time ; Don't cross that line

Present: Save the cities, spare the suburbs. Desegregating dollars ; Like a Russian novel: school finance litigation in state courts ; Limited choices ; The impact of choice and the role of courts ; Lowering the bar: the standards and testing movement

Future: Democracy is opportunity. In search of ties that bind ; Freeman and Tee-Jay revisited.