“Sunlight struck the gnarled limbs outside his window, casting a thicket of light and shadow on the white clapboards. From his high desk under the eaves, Colin Diver could watch students strolling the paths of Cambridge Common or playing softball on the neatly trimmed diamond.” This book is a great reminder than whenever someone starts talking about “local control” in politics, referring to education policy, they are talking about segregation. I remember when I was a kid a specific election season (though I don’t remember […]