In New Book, Diverse Families Find Broken Schools, Broken Dreams in the 'Burbs

The post-World War II growth and massive government subsidization of America’s suburbs is an often-told tale. But in his new book Disillusioned, education journalist Benjamin Herold offers a grim, cautionary afterword for the 21st Century. Staring down the nearly 80-year history of modern suburbia, Herold finds that the effort produced mostly “disposable communities” across the […]

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