Lessons from the Heartland: A Turbulent Half-Century of Public Education in an Iconic American City

In a magisterial work of narrative nonfiction that weaves together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the broader story of hypersegregation in the rust belt, Lessons from the Heartland tells of an iconic city’s fall from grace—and of its chance for redemption in the twenty-first century.A symbol of middle American wo More »