Review of Structuring inequality: How schooling, housing, and tax policies shaped metropolitan development and education

As someone who was educated in the public schools of Long Island, New York, and who later was an educator there, I often reflect on both my experiences as a beneficiary of the region's excellent schools growing up in the 1950s and 1960s and a subsequent, rewarding career teaching in seven of the more than 100 school districts there.Tracy L. Steffes's Structuring Inequality: How Schooling, Housing and Tax Policies Shaped Metropolitan Development and Education intrigued me, because I was also aware of several struggling Long Island school districts, usually serving predominantly people of color, but I never fully understood why they were struggling.I hoped that Steffes's historical study of how policy shaped Chicagoland's development would not only explain Chicagoland