Children of the Dream is a challenge to the hoary misconceptions that have shackled public education for decades. The book makes an argument based on sound statistical research infused with compelling personal narratives and on‐the‐ground reporting. That argument lays waste to the notion that school integration was a failed social experiment. School integration worked, Children of the Dream says. And it will work again. With first‐class data, we explain why integration worked, why it came up short, and how it can be revived and fulfilled today. Children of the Dream is an impassioned and evidence-based argument in favor of renewing that commitment for the collective health of the nation.
Rucker C. Johnson is an Associate Professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. As a labor economist who specializes in the economics of education, Johnson’s work considers the role of poverty and inequality in affecting life chances. Johnson is committed to advance his scholarly agenda of fusing insights from multiple disciplinary perspectives to improve our understanding of the causes, consequences, and remedies of inequality in this country. Johnson earned his Ph.D. in economics at the University of Michigan.
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